On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:07:04PM -0800, Shane Wegner wrote: > Hello all, > > I am currently using Lynx 2.8.5-dev11 with file uploads > enabled. Perhaps not a Lynx issue directly but I ran into > the problem of Lynx base64 encoding binary files. It seems > the file upload support in php doesn't support Lynx's > method of transmitting and my script has no way to know > whether a file is base64 encoded or not. > > I am using php 4.2.3 with the basic $_FILE structures and > the information they provide. I have read other messages > on the lynx-dev list about this and am wondering if anyone > ever came up with a way to fix it. Perhaps disabling > base64 encoding for uploads altogether.
base64 encoding is used for binary files because lynx doesn't handle embedded nulls in the file - would require rewriting a few hundred lines of code, as well as changing several dozen places where the result is passed around. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
