How to PUT binary data with REST?
February 25, 2008 by
Stephan SchmidtBase64 in XML? Multi-mime? See the question, add a comment if you have an answer, the Google results are not very satisfying. Someone clearly solved the problem. But all REST discussions I’ve found do not adress the problem. Even the “RESTful Web Services” bible is mostly silent on the topic (And I don’t want to declare the binary object a resource and PUT binary data into it).
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Stephan Schmidt has been working with internet technologies for the last 20 years. He was head of development, consultant and CTO and is a speaker, author and blog writer. He specializes in organizing and optimizing software development helping companies by increasing productivity with lean software development and agile methodologies. Want to know more? All views are only his own. You can find him on Google +
