Hello On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:56:31PM +0000, Dave Cridland wrote: > Yes, base64 is acceptable here, although bear in mind that over a > charged-by-transfer medium - such as many mobile phone tariffs - that 100k > image is transferred as 133k, and 33k that you didn't really need to > transfer sounds like an additional cost we could drop if we had the > technology to do so. It's not a driver for it, though, I agree.
Can't compression solve this? Does anyone know, how the base64 encoded data grow/shrink, if they are put trough zlib? Would be nice to know, how far it is worth going with the blob transfers & modifications to protocol. -- Wait few minutes before opening this email. The temperature difference could lead to vapour condensation. Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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