[PHP] WDDX and binary data

[Christopher Heschong]

Despite the fact that PHP's WDDX functions don't support a "binary" type, 
most binary data comes through just fine, and in fact, the WDDX serialize 
function can encode certain types of binary data, such as a null 
character: <char code='00'/>

But the deserialize process dos not retain these characters.  Is this a 
bug in PHP's implementation of WDDX, or is there perhaps a workaround 
available?

Here's some example code that shows a WDDX packet of encoded binary data.
The packet itself contains all of the binary data, including null 
characters, etc.  The deserialized() string, however, does not.

<?php

$fp = fopen("http://www.php.net/gifs/php_logo.gif","r";);
while (!feof($fp)) {
 $str .= fread($fp, 4096);
}

$packet = wddx_serialize_value($str, "php_logo.gif");

Header("Content-Type: image/gif");

$str = wddx_deserialize($packet);

echo $str;

?>

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/chris/

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