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It strikes me as misleading at best even regarding HTTP/1.1, which was of course still capable of transferring binary files. just text might be taken to indicat
by MaxBarraclough 4y ago
It strikes me as misleading at best even regarding HTTP/1.1, which was of course still capable of transferring binary files. just text might be taken to indicate that it just supports text.
- bena 4y agoYeah, but you have to convert the binary into a text representation. Same thing with email, you have to base64 encode binary to transform it into something capable of being represented by a string of ASCII characters.
- jesprenj 4y agoNo, you don't have to - you mustn't. Binary is transfered as binary, except in cases when the actual data contains already encoded values - www-form-urlencoded or application/json, ...