On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, amit paliwal wrote: > > libcurl base64-encodes control data in a few places automatically when >>> required (e.g. for Basic authentication), but it won't encode data. If your >>> application requires base64-encoded data, it will need to be so encoded in >>> the app. And those two functions are not actually part of the libcurl API, >>> so they aren't even available for use in apps, anyway. >>> >> > So does it mean that if I use TLS and HTTPS I need not to apply it >> separately and it will be done automatically?????? >> > > It means that libcurl provides an API to do data transfers. You can use > that API as documented. libcurl offers transfers using a larger amount of > different protocols, and some of those protocols do sometimes require that > data is sent base64-encoded and then libcurl will do so. > > I tried using curl_base64.h, but when i installed the curl package, i did not found this .h file in my /usr/local/include/curl directory where other .h files like curl.h are present. Do i need to enable it with some particular option. > -- > > / daniel.haxx.se > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library > Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html > -- Regards, Amit
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