[wp-xmlrpc] base64_decode missing in metaWeblog.newMediaObject

[Peter Westwood]

Daniel Jalkut wrote:
> Joseph - I suspect what is happening here is that the afflicted users 
> are not enclosing their "bits" in a <base64> tag.  MarsEdit, and I 
> suspect every other client that currently works, puts the data in such 
> a tag, which causes your XMLRPC parser to do the base64 decoding 
> automatically:
>
> wp-includes/class-IXR.php
>
> See line 241.
>
> So it would be dangerous to take their patch because any clients that 
> currently embed the bits explicitly in a <base64> node will have had 
> their bits already decoded.
>
Indeed, we've been round this loop before. [1]

IXR does the base64 decoding for us.

If the uploads aren't working from someone then there requests are duff 
as Daniel says.

[1] http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1008

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