[jdom-interest] Binary files as XML content

[philip.nelson at omniresources.com]

> I believe that this is true for HTML as well, or for anything 
> traveling
> over HTTP; I'm fairly certain that you have to MIME-encode anything
> outside the 7-bit ASCII range for HTTP (possibly not true, or possibly
> dependent upon HTTP version; I'm not checking, just remembering).
> 

Nope! HTTP doesn't care and there are lots of systems that transfer binary
data over HTTP every day.