OpenSAML user discussion

>Umm, well, obviously that's not the actual base64, that's just the Java
>"pointer" to the bytes. If (and I'm not assuming this, but...) you actually
>are sending something like that and trying to decode it, obviously that
>isn't going to work.
>
>Can you post a code snippet, maybe? You could take a look at the
>POSTProfileTest in the tests/ directory for an example test case that dumps
>the base64 and reads it back in.
>
>-- Scott

On a related note, why are the base64 functions based on byte [] on the 
encoded side ? wouldn't they be more useful if they returned / accepted a 
string ?

Thanks
Simon