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Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 06/17/01 12:00
Paul Lautman wrote:
> Bint wrote:
>> This may be an ignorant question, but does PHP always return text
>> data? I would like to return binary data from a script that I call,
>> in much the same way that I get binary data simply by downloading a
>> file. I would like to call a php file and let it determine what
>> binary data is returned.
>> Right now, if I try to return a binary string, it seems like the
>> string is being converted into coded characters , like "%5F" and such
>>
>> Thanks
>> B
>
> All data is "binary" data. The browser however interprets the data in
> different ways depending on the headers that are sent with it. So if the
> headers say it is an image, the browser will try to display it as an image.
>
>
And if it is text, but with odd characters in it, php MAY decide to turn
that into HTML correct characters, depending on how switches are set I
think.
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