Ok, I know understood that non ASCII strings are treated as binary data. Thank you very much everybody ;)
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Bernhard Schussek <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Samir, > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Samir van de Sand > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, thank you for your reply. However, I still don't understand why I > should > > save cookie contents with base64 encoding? They aren't binary data? > > Nicolas already gave you the answer: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Nicolas Perriault <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Base64 is often used because it's charset safe (only ascii characters > > are used to represent the encoded content) > > Imagine a cookie that contains special characters like €, ö, é etc. > These characters are not ASCII characters, but if you encode them with > base64, they will be encoded using ASCII characters (gA==, 9g== and > 6Q== in this case). Thus you receive a valid ASCII string that can > safely be stored in the cookie. > > > Bernhard > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
