Cool, nice to know! :)

Now, what is if I wanted to save a structure like this and send it to my client?

{
    "files": {
        "file.jpg": <data>,
        "name": "My File"
    }
}

Am 30.09.2014 um 22:59 schrieb Aria Stewart <[email protected]>:

> 
> On Sep 30, 2014, at 4:42 PM, Ingwie Phoenix <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> The title says it rather well.
>> 
>> But to elaborate a little: I have a web service that can collect data from a 
>> database, clean it and then send it to a user as a backup. This backup is 
>> supposed to contain binary data, like pictures. But how do I parse such with 
>> nodejs - and what format to use? There is a NodeJS/browser implementation of 
>> BSON, but for PHP you need a compile, which is more or less a downside.
>> 
>> Does anyone have an idea how to do that, without using base64 within a JSON 
>> object, or is that the only way to go?
> 
> The web is 8-bit clean! Just send it!
> 
> In node, that'd be represented as a buffer; if the file is supposed to be 
> saved by the user via a browser, set the content-disposition header to 
> trigger it to download rather than display.
> 
> PHP strings are just strings of bytes, not characters, so it can just deal 
> with binary data like node does in a buffer.
> 
> Aria
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