extended chars and a web service

[Stu]

Hi,

I have a web service which accepts a password field
When I send encrypted character to this web service
and they happen to be an extended character
I get an xml error.How do I solve this

TIA

Stu

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Stu <St*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

I have a web service which accepts a password field
When I send encrypted character to this web service
and they happen to be an extended character
I get an xml error.How do I solve this

When you say "encrypted character" - what exactly do you mean?
Encryption usually results in binary data rather than string data, and
you shouldn't be passing binary data as if it were string data.

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[Stu]

Hi,

The encrypted data could return an ascii char of say 131 ro 141 etc
which can be represented as a string but seem to give a validation error


"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote:

Stu <St*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

I have a web service which accepts a password field
When I send encrypted character to this web service
and they happen to be an extended character
I get an xml error.How do I solve this

When you say "encrypted character" - what exactly do you mean?
Encryption usually results in binary data rather than string data, and
you shouldn't be passing binary data as if it were string data.

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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Stu <St*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

The encrypted data could return an ascii char of say 131 ro 141 etc
No it couldn't, because ASCII doesn't *have* characters 131-141. ASCII
only goes up as far as 127.
which can be represented as a string but seem to give a validation error

Whereas *real* ASCII shouldn't cause any problems at all. This is one
of the advantages of using Base64 - the result is entirely ASCII.

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