Re: File up/download

David Crawshaw <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.xwt.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 09:25  PM, Emiliano wrote:
> OK. Base64 affects the size of the file on the wire, right?

Base64 uses 3 bytes to encode every 2 bytes of data, that way it limits 
the range to readable ascii that can be transmitted in email.

So yes, there's a 1/3 size increase.

d


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