Posted by Rik Wasmus on 01/19/08 01:30

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:41:41 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c> wrote:

> 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.

PHP does not 'turn it into something' unless specifically told so. How is
it you think PHP does this 'to HTML correct characters' alteration?
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Rik Wasmus

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