Thanks Laurie that is useful information. -David > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurie Harper > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:39 PM > To: user@struts.apache.org > Subject: Re: How to encode byte array as url parameter > > Just to add to your options ;-), here's another suggestion: convert the > byte[] to an integer (store it in a BigInteger). BigInteger can give you a > string representation in whatever base you want. Base 10 would give you a > purely numeric but rather long string; base 16 (hex) would be more > compact. But you can go all the way up to base 62 (same principle as hex > notation, but using [a-cA-Z0-9]). > > I think that probably gives you the most compact URL-safe representation, > though I'm not sure. Compare URL-encoded Base64 vs. this technique and see > which works best for you. > > L. > > David Erickson wrote: > > > Thanks the base64 combined with URLEncoder should work great. > > -David > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Michael Jouravlev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 1:36 PM > >>To: Struts Users Mailing List > >>Subject: Re: How to encode byte array as url parameter > >> > >>Base64 will not work, because its charset includes + and / ASCII > >>characters. So you might write something like strToHex() (or whatever > >>its name is), for example see Cryptix library, Hex utility class. Or > >>you can just use that class directly. > >> > >>On the other hand, you may use Base64, and then URLEncoder.encode(). > >> > >>Michael. > >> > >>On 6/22/05, David Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>Hi I am wondering how I can take a byte[] and use it as a URL > parameter? > >> > >>I > >> > >>>have tried converting it to a string using varying character sets, but > >> > >>when > >> > >>>I call string.getbytes I never get back my original array. Any help > >> > >>would > >> > >>>be greatly appreciated. > >>> > >>>Thanks > >>>David > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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