Re: emacs-25 b6b47AF: Properly encode/decode base64Binary data in SOAP

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: Alex Harsanyi <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  
> address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:47:16 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> The decoding in soap-client is consistent, even though not in the way
> >> you would like it :-)
> >> 
> >>   * if it is told that a value is a string, it will return a string,
> >>   * if it is told that a value is a byte array it will return a byte
> >> array (unibyte string)
> >
> > Told by whom?  By debbugs.el, by the WSDL, by the debbugs server, by
> > something else?  (Sorry, I know almost nothing about the debbugs or
> > SOAP.)
> 
> By the XML data returned by the debbugs (SOAP) server.

Then this doesn't really help us, since the server lies to us.

Thanks.