Re: [WebDNA] Retrieving a PDF from an email
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2008
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 101449
interpreted = N
texte = Don't know if it's relevant to your situation as I haven't really been paying attention but, I had problems trying to do an XOR thing a while back and I always found that WebDNA choked whenever it came up against a null character. Neither the decrypt or encode things seemed to be able to get past them. May be that's the problem, I never did get a workaround.. Cheers PS Maybe it's got nothing whatsoever to do with the topic, if so apologies for wasting this precious bandwidth!! ======================================== Steve Craig - Asylum Interactive Ltd Tel +44 1330 860550 Fax +44 1330 860880 ======================================== http://www.asylumweb.com Email: steve@asylumweb.com Skype: s.craig - iChat: steve.craig ======================================== On 18 Nov 2008, at 14:33, Govinda wrote: > > On Nov 18, 2008, at 12:22 AM, Kenneth Grome wrote: > >> The problem I'm imagining with decrypt in your case is that >> a .pdf file might contain a string of characters that looks >> like it needs to be decrypted when in reality that string >> of characters should not be decrypted ... kind of like when >> my original text has a string such as %20 in it but unurl >> changes this string into a space character instead of >> leaving it as %20. > > > That sounds like we aren't sure what pdfs are made of. Are they > actually encoded just in certain parts of the file? I never looked > into what makes up a pdf... > Stuart, you must have tried dealing with attachments that are other > file types to see how that compares? > --------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list
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Don't know if it's relevant to your situation as I haven't really been paying attention but, I had problems trying to do an XOR thing a while back and I always found that WebDNA choked whenever it came up against a null character. Neither the decrypt or encode things seemed to be able to get past them. May be that's the problem, I never did get a workaround.. Cheers PS Maybe it's got nothing whatsoever to do with the topic, if so apologies for wasting this precious bandwidth!! ======================================== Steve Craig - Asylum Interactive Ltd Tel +44 1330 860550 Fax +44 1330 860880 ======================================== http://www.asylumweb.com Email: steve@asylumweb.com Skype: s.craig - iChat: steve.craig ======================================== On 18 Nov 2008, at 14:33, Govinda wrote: > > On Nov 18, 2008, at 12:22 AM, Kenneth Grome wrote: > >> The problem I'm imagining with decrypt in your case is that >> a .pdf file might contain a string of characters that looks >> like it needs to be decrypted when in reality that string >> of characters should not be decrypted ... kind of like when >> my original text has a string such as %20 in it but unurl >> changes this string into a space character instead of >> leaving it as %20. > > > That sounds like we aren't sure what pdfs are made of. Are they > actually encoded just in certain parts of the file? I never looked > into what makes up a pdf... > Stuart, you must have tried dealing with attachments that are other > file types to see how that compares? > --------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us > old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/
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