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[Guy Halse <guy AT tenet.ac.za>]

    Hi

On 2020/03/17 10:48, Stefan Winter wrote:

      base64 expresses three binary bytes as four printable characters.
      There is thus an approximate relation that a base64 string is 4/3
      (four thirds) of the binary source. The additional few bytes at
      the beginning of the URI become less and less significant the
      bigger the file is. 
    
    Sure. My original point was merely that we decide which form makes
    most sense and be unambiguous :)  I was merely explaining why we use
    the form we do.
    
    I'm happy to do the maths for my users if the decision is to use the
    encoded form, and publish a sensible user-understandable limit.
    Because my experience with email attachments is that even relatively
    tech savy users don't understand that a 5MB attachment limit means
    you can only attach a 3.5MB file, and that generates support
    calls...
    
    -  Guy

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