Re: Anatomy of an .xsiaddon file? / Are attachments base64-encoded?

Date : Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:01:41 -0700
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : "Alan Fregtman" <alan.fregtman(at)gmail.com>
Subject : Re: Anatomy of an .xsiaddon file? / Are attachments base64-encoded?
That'd explain the binary-looking result I get when I decode it.

I'm gonna give a shot at grabbing the string and unzipping it.

  -- Alan


On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <lucer(at)softimage.com> wrote:
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> can't check right now but I think it's a zip file that's base64-encoded.
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>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of Alan Fregtman
>  Posted At: Sat 3/15/2008 10:41 PM
>  To: xsi(at)Softimage.COM
>  Posted To: xsi
>  Subject: Anatomy of an .xsiaddon file? / Are attachments base64-encoded?
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>  Hey guys,
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>  I'm writing a little tool and I'm trying to decode certain files from
>  your typical .xsiaddon file.
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>  I noticed it seems like some kind of XML-based format and attachments
>  (files) in it look like base64-encoded strings.
>  Are they base64-encoded or is it something else? Because I tried
>  decoding what would be a plaintext file and it didn't seem to decode
>  right.
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>  Any help appreciated.
>  Cheers,
>
>     -- Alan
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