[avahi] Binary data in TXT records

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 10.08.10 07:40, Jeff Koftinoff (jeffk at jdkoftinoff.com) wrote:

> I just read the following from
> http://www.zeroconf.org/Rendezvous/txtrecords.html which states that
> while it is a TXT record, the NAME is ASCII, but the VALUE is 8 bit
> binary and you SHOULD NOT convert binary values into hexadecimal
> ascii!
> 
> What is the best way to encode binary values in a TXT record as
> defined by the xml service file in avahi?
> 
> Does avahi handle embedded nulls in the value?

The C API allows you to create binary TXT fields very easily. However,
this is not supported in the XML definition for static services, simply
because there is no nice way to include binary data in XML files.

Lennart

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