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(22-11-2012 09:53)bubbleguuum Wrote:  An alternative to gzip+base64 is to use a md5sum of the file path.
That limits URL length at the (small) expense to have to store the md5sum => file path association in a file. Which is very easily done by using Java serialization on a HashMap for example. That's what I'm doing in BubbleUPnP Server. But in other scenarios I just use gzip+base64.

The disadvantage of this would be that I couldn't decode paths in trace logs created by users for problem solving and debugging. This isn't a problem if I use a self-contained reversible encoding.