I am building a service using WCF and I need to send over images. I looked around on how this is done and found that Base64 encoding is often used to send binary data as text. Is this a good practice to send over images (~500 kb)?
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I am building a service using WCF and I need to send over images. I looked around on how this is done and found that Base64 encoding is often used to send binary data as text. Is this a good practice to send over images (~500 kb)?
That’s a really big message, but yes, if you must send them, base 64 is the way to go. If you only have .net clients then you could look at binary message encoding to shrink the size down