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To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: ehabkost@redhat.com, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, dlaor@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>

On 06/23/2009 11:07 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 06/23/2009 10:00 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> For starters, there is no way to encode NULL values in a JSON 
>>> string.  This means you cannot send binary data unless you base64 
>>> encode it first.
>>
>> That seems to have been solved:
>>
>>
>> js> a = 'x\0y'
>> xy
>> js> a.length
>> 3
>>
>> I don't know enough javascript to verify that it's indeed a NUL, but 
>> I'm guessing that it is.
>
> This is a browser restriction.
>

So this will only hit us is we port qemu to javascript and run it in a 
web broswer.

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