On Friday, January 05, 2007 Jim Dixon wrote:
> HTTP is routinely used to transfer binary data.
Yep. It was not designed for "just HTML". It was meant and
was used to transfer gifs and such pretty much from the start.
Best wishes -
S.Osokine.
5 Jan 2007.
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On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Lemon Obrien wrote:
> I agree with many on this list about the use of HTTP to transfer
> files...I really don't get why people think bitTorrent is special; and
> I'm even more confussed considering HTTP is Text based and to transfer
> data you have to convert it to base64 and back again. HTTP was meant to
> transfer HTML...its that simple. People are klugding HTTP b/c they 1.
HTTP is routinely used to transfer binary data. See RFC 2616,
specifically section 14.13 on the use of the Content-Length header.
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