The thing that would concern me is if the file had a quote in it, as might be the case with a word file. If you are talking about image data, there shouldn't be a problem with that, especially since the format for modern image files are all "internet friendly".
I guess it just depends on the nature of the data. Bob On Mar 15, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > Bob and Slug, > > I've been doing this for years, but I have never used base 64 encoding and > decoding. I've moved multiple gigabytes of binary data back and forth between > local machine and mySql server without any trouble at all. So my question is, > why use base 64 encoding if it doesn't make any difference? > > Devin > > Devin Asay > Humanities Technology and Research Support Center > Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
