Hi Samir,
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Samir van de Sand
samir@googlemail.com wrote:
Ok, thank you for your reply. However, I still don't understand why I should
save cookie contents with base64 encoding? They aren't binary data?
Nicolas already gave you the answer:
On Wed, Dec 17,
Ok, I know understood that non ASCII strings are treated as binary data.
Thank you very much everybody ;)
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Bernhard Schussek bschus...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Samir,
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Samir van de Sand
samir@googlemail.com wrote:
Ok, thank
2008/12/17 Samir van de Sand samir@googlemail.com:
Hello everybody,
I recently noticed a function called base64_encode. Eg. the Symfony cookbook
tutorial about cookies recommends encoding cookie contents with base64:
http://www.symfony-project.org/cookbook/1_2/en/cookie
However I still
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Samir van de Sand
samir@googlemail.com wrote:
The cookie only contains a string. How's that binary data?
Base64 is often used because it's charset safe (only ascii characters
are used to represent the encoded content)
++
--
Nicolas Perriault
Yeah, I had read the Wikipedia article. However it's still not completely
clear to me. Wikipedia from what I understood says, that base64 encoding is
needed in order to prevent data corruption of binary data during the
transfer over the internet.
1. The cookie only contains a string. How's that
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Samir van de Sand
samir@googlemail.com wrote:
However I still haven't understood what base64 is and why I should use it.
Is there anybody who could explain this?
http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=base64
--
Nicolas Perriault
http://prendreuncafe.com -
On Dec 17, 9:04 am, Samir van de Sand samir@googlemail.com
wrote:
2. Does this mean everytime I transfer (binary) data to the client I need to
encode it with base64?
Most email software will do this when encoding attachments for sending
through SMTP, otherwise your binary may arrive
