Regarding content-transfer encoding in MMS content

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Murali Mohan.K
Posted on Monday, April 14, 2003 - 06:44 am:   

HI,

I have some assumptions regarding the content-transfer encoding for MMS and have listed below.

1. content-transfer encoding will be done if there are any restrictions on how the data is being transfered over the n/w. For eg: base64 encoding used for email clients due to the restrictions of SMTP protocol.

2. When a MMS as an email with attachments sent to a MMS Client, MMSC will perform the content-transfer decoding for all components which are encoded and forms an MMS pdu which will be sent to the MMS client.
This means MMS Client need not have a content decoder like a base64 decoder, b'coz its already been done by MMSC.

Let me know if my assumption is right.

Thanx
Murali
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support (Bryce)
Posted on Monday, April 14, 2003 - 02:51 pm:   

Murali,

That's right, an MMS client does not need to deal with Base64 or quoted printable encoding.

Everything gets sent to the client in its binary form.

-bn