Ineroperability of Webservice arguments.

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Kevin Burton - 11 Jan 2004 15:55 GMT

I have a web service that takes and returns a byte []. As
long as I have a .NET client this seems to work OK. I was
wondering if I would be better off from an interop
standpoint to change the argument and return to a base64
encoded string?

Any ideas?

Kevin

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Saurabh Nandu - 12 Jan 2004 13:16 GMT

Hi Kevin,

internally the bytes get converted to Base64 in .NET during transmission.
For interoperablity purposes its better to use Base64 encoding. I have
worked with web serives returning images, and i use the same base64 strings
as parameters.

Reagrds,
Saurabh Nandu

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