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Brady Moritz
Brady Moritz

Reputation: 8903

http content type, and binary data

I thought I knew this already but now I'm not sure: Is all content sent over http always encoded to character data? ie, if my content type is a binary file type, is it always converted to binhex, or is it possible to send "actual" binary data across the wire?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5581

Answers (2)

Niet the Dark Absol
Niet the Dark Absol

Reputation: 324600

Character data is just binary data with special meaning to humans :p
The actual body of the HTTP request may be encoded and/or compressed, and this is specified in the headers.

Upvotes: 2

AndreKR
AndreKR

Reputation: 33658

In HTTP there is no content transfer encoding (e.g. base64) done, so binary data is sent just binary, byte-by-byte.

Upvotes: 4

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