What is difference Between Base64 and Multipart?

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Can any one explain what is the advantage of Base64 as well Multipart

I know Multipart is faster then Base64...

But still many developers are using Base64...I studied both documentation but i am not clear

Answer

Maraj Hussain picture Maraj Hussain · Nov 3, 2017

Base64
Base64 is a way to encode binary data into an ASCII character format by translating it into a radix-64 representation.
I recommend you that never use Base64 for large file/data upload to server beacuse it's convert whole data and post it to server.

Multipart
Multipart is a way to upload file/data to server in the form of part which are in bytes. Multpart/form-data is applied to a form though, so you can send everything in a multi-part form, including "regular" data also.

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