Mark Nottingham wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Martin Gudgin wrote: > >> >> So I think what it happening here is that when things are sent a binary >> ( and 8-bit? ) no encoding/decoding occurs at the MIME level. For 7-bit. >> base64 and quoted-printable encoding/decoding happens at the MIME layer. >> In all cases the octets at the layer above MIME are the same. >> >> Is this correct? > > > In broad brushstrokes, yes. Not quite, there isn't any encoding/decoding that occurs for 7-bit. The content-transfer-encoding is just a declaration that the data is 7-bit clean. -Anish -- ... <snip/> ...Received on Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:22:05 GMT
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