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Nimbostratus

May 31, 2016

ASM Blocking Image Uploads

Hello We have a Rest API using JSON which accepts an image as part of the payload. The image is Base64 Encoded and generally works well however we have had some instances where the Base64 encod...

Altostratus

Jun 01, 2016

The best way to do this is with multipart content type. There exist different subtypes, i.e. related or mixed. In my opinion, it is the best way to transport files. Here, you don't need base64. The file can be apend at the rest request without convert it before.

You can look here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4083702/posting-a-file-and-data-to-restful-webservice-as-json

or http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/7_2_Multipart.html

or https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2387

or https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046