Joel N. Weber II writes: I doubt base64 will ever stop existing. It will probably always be present for backwards compatibility. Servers could stop supporting it (most web servers I use already don't use it, since the info on them is publicly accessible), but a client might as well keep code that supports it, in case a user ever needs it. One other reason: HTTP/1.1 includes the Content-MD5 header, which specifies the use of base64. Content-MD5 is optional (and perhaps not even particularly useful?), but its use of base64 is presumably a settled decision. -JeffReceived on Monday, 5 January 1998 10:51:52 UTC
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