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From: Jan Lehnardt <janlehnardt@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: I need to know how to parse attachment data
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 10:41:43 +0200
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On 25 May 2009, at 06:07, Darrell Huang wrote:

> Hi, everyone, I got some trouble in reading the attachment data from  
> documents with the HTTP API. When an attachment is downloaded with  
> the API, some extra data is found before and after the attachment  
> data, and the data can be different at different times.
> For example, when I downloaded an attachment with the jpg format  
> several weeks ago, there is a character sequence "dbc\r\n" preceding  
> the actual file data, but when I did that today, it was "a24\r\n".
> I don't know what this extra data means. Can someone tell me how to  
> parse the packet content and extract the actual attachment data from  
> it?


Maybe http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.6.1?

Cheers
Jan
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