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Doesn't HTTP require binary data to be converted to base64 encoding, thereby increasing its size on the wire? That seems suboptimal for a lot of use cases
by LambdaComplex 2y ago
Doesn't HTTP require binary data to be converted to base64 encoding, thereby increasing its size on the wire?
That seems suboptimal for a lot of use cases
- kragen 2y agono, it does not, neither in requests nor in replies. possibly you are thinking of smtp
- LambdaComplex 2y ago> possibly you are thinking of smtp You're right, I definitely was
- devmor 2y agoIt does not - you are perhaps thinking of GET queries: URL data often must be base64 encoded as URLs are parsed as characters. HTTP bodies can be made up of any data in any encoding you wish.