Re: Book shouldn't say property values can be binary

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 02:43, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> > Speaking of which -- how does Subversion marshall binary property values
> > through WebDAV?
>
> We base64-encode them, I believe, so that they can be transferred as
> CDATA through XML.

Yep. You should see stuff like:

   <C:my-binary-prop encoding="base64">asdfadsf12341lklkjh2143lkj1hf23...

in an ethereal trace.

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Received on Fri Feb 27 16:16:05 2004