- From: Phillip M. Hallam-Baker <hallam@dxal18.cern.ch>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 17:35:42 +0900
- To: Mike Cowlishaw <mfc@vnet.ibm.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: hallam@dxal18.cern.ch
>HTTP already uses MIME-64 encoding for converting octects to characters; >I'd suggest that re-using the same encoding scheme would make sense >(since servers are likely to include the code already, and it's also >more compact that 4bits->1octect encoding). I agree. (and not just because its only a single line change in my code :-) MD5s are recognisable as base64 objects. Base16 is still appropriate for the likes of timestamps and such though since they are genuinely numbers rather than blocks of random bits. Phill
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