why I needed this (was Re: anyone here got a function to find is a string is base64 encoded?)

[Dar Scott]

On Jul 25, 2004, at 6:56 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> thats on the client side, like you are the one making the request. You 
> call the xmlrpcRequest function with an arbitrary numbers of 
> parameters. They will all be probed and an XML-RPC Method Request XML 
> will be assembled. Integers will be put inside <int> tags, arrays 
> inside <array> or <struct> depending on the presence of keys or not. 
> One problem was how to detect a base64 param if they look like 
> strings? Now we can try to detect them and put well formed base64 
> inside <base64> param, were not encoding nor decoding it, we're just 
> taking it to the server.

Can you make the rule that if it is base64, that the user must pass the 
parameter like this:  ..., tag64(x),...

Or maybe, pass it as a string, but if it contains troublesome or 
invalid characters, then your script makes the decision to base64.

Dar