Sending Encrypted Binary Messages With PHP Web Services

Web services has made the communication between heterogeneous environments (say PHP with .NET or Java) a reality. It has defines standards for communicate not only with texts but also with binaries. And more importantly you can keep these communication confidential using encrypted messages according to your requirement. In the post "Sending Encrypted Binary Messages With PHP Web Services" , we will look at how we can implement such a system with PHP in one side.

Send Binary With Web Services in PHP - 2 Minutes Introduction

If you want to send binary in web services, you have several options. You can use either base64 encoded strings or MTOM, SWA binary optimized protocols. Here is a very quick introduction on how you can implement it in your application.