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List:       xmlrpc-user
Subject:    Re: XML-RPC and File Transfer
From:       "Jochen Wiedmann" <jochen.wiedmann () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-07-16 21:07:19
Message-ID: e75283b10807161407m47191e3i5a87a7be07df719b () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Mike Boyers <mboyers@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I also thought of the possibility of pulling the contents of a file into a large \
> byte[] and sending that.  This might work, but I could I potentially run into \
> encoding issues?  And I'm also wondering if it even makes sense to try to transfer \
> a large amount of data via this mechanism.  Would it be unreliable to do so or \
> prone to errors?  Would the underlying HTTP transferring mechanism chunk the large \
> data up and send it in pieces?

No, a byte[] is basically the right way to go. On the client side you
may as well use an InputStream (for example to an open file), if I
remember right.

Jochen


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