sending a file through sockets

[Irmen de Jong]

Bo M. Maryniuck wrote:
> On Thursday 04 July 2002 16:20, Guyon Mor� wrote:
> 
>>-------
>>encode some_file.jpg to basecode64 makes: SsDfgFVSFgfsaSZFASasfgAS
>>in send it through the socket and decode it back and write it to a file.
>>-------
>>right?
> 
> 
> Yup!
> 

Nope.
That is totally unnecessary. You can send any string over a socket
connection, also the open('somefile').read() string, without having
to encode/decode it to some ASCII form.

See the other posting in this thread (by brueckd at tbye.com) for more info...

Irmen