Hi,

Have you had a look at this article 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/254388/en-us.
it'd restrict your browsers to .net clients but should get the work done.. 
-- 
Ravi Shankar


"Brandon" wrote:

> My browser app sends a request to the server for a binary file.  The server 
> receives the request, converts the file to base64, packages it up in XML, and 
> returns it to the client/browser.
> 
> I can parse the returned XML just fine -- and find the base64 data -- but 
> for the life of me cannot get it decoded back to it's original format.  The 
> script below gets the filedata (using "nodeTypedValue") and saves it, but 
> it's still the base64 representation of the file.
> 
> I've tried a million different things, and have searched all over the web 
> and newsgroups, and I just can't seem to find a combination that gets me the 
> original unencoded/decoded filedata.
> 
> Two other notes:
> 1. On the server side, I set the dataType = "bin.base64"
> 2. When it's back here on the client, if I alert() out the dataType for the 
> node, it's null.  I thought that was interesting.
> 
> Here is my client/browser JavaScript:
>  var getdocs_xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.4.0");
>  var getdocs_xmldoc  = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0");
>  getdocs_xmldoc.loadXML(reqxml);
>  getdocs_xmlhttp.open("POST", "http://myserver/getbinfile.asp", false);
>  getdocs_xmlhttp.send(getdocs_xmldoc);
> 
>   getdocs_xmldoc.loadXML(getdocs_xmlhttp.responseText); 
>   //getdocs_xmldoc.save(folderpath + "download.xml");
>   var root           = getdocs_xmldoc.documentElement;
>   var inodelist      = root.childNodes;
> 
> ...
> parsing through for other data as well (i.e. filename)
> ...
>    if( nitem.nodeName == "filedata" )
>    {
>      var objStream = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Stream")
>      objStream.Type = 1;
>      objStream.Open();
>      objStream.Write( nitem.childNodes.item(0).nodeTypedValue );
>      objStream.SaveToFile( folderpath + tfilename, (1 & 2) );
>      objStream.Close();
>    }
> 
> ANY help would be MUCH appreciated.  Thank you all!
> 
> -b
> 
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