Posted by Paul Lautman on 09/30/68 12:00

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.

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