On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Boyd, Todd M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I know that Base64 encoding adds something like 30% to the overall volume of 
> the object once it has been encoded. For huge files, that might be 
> unacceptable. I'm not sure how UUEncode handles it.

yeah, I found an email thread from 2001 saying base64 is the way to
go.  however for every 6 bytes it creates 8 bytes or something (hence
the 33% bloat)

there's also options like http://www.yenc.org/ - but this would
require java support (or appropriate extensions written) and
server-end support (PHP, or in-webserver code)

base64 is -probably- the easiest. PHP has both uuencode and base64
standard. However, need to look at it from the client angle - Java
probably has base64 easily available, not sure about uudecode. Not
sure about flash, or any other client programs; or web browsers
themselves too...

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