Re: How to Looking at Raw Binary Data with PHP and curl

Graham Anderson wrote:

How do you display raw binary data of a file sent from a server with curl ?

You can probably just use file_get_contents() if allow_url_fopen is enabled (it is by default). For binary data, base64_encode and it's friend base64_decode allow you to encode and decode binary data in a normal ASCII string. http://php.net/file_get_contents http://php.net/base64_encode

I want to encrypt the file with something akin to str_replace and decode it on the other side with a custom data handler Just want to make sure that I am str_replace'ing the actual data and not a representation of it :)

str_replace is not for encryption. You might want to look at mcrypt, as using str_replace is probably just as bad as sending the unencrypted string. It's not going to be secure. http://php.net/mcrypt -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/