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

Date : Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:54:17 -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?
Ok, that didn't seem to work. :/

Can someone confirm if it's really a zip file? I tried putting the
base64-decoded contents to a file, and unzipping them with no luck.
Also tried to see if they might be .gz files.

   -- Alan

ps: Any Soft employees around?


On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Alan Fregtman <alan.fregtman(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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>  On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <lucer(at)softimage.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > can't check right now but I think it's a zip file that's base64-encoded.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  -----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?
>  >
>  >  Hey guys,
>  >
>  >  I'm writing a little tool and I'm trying to decode certain files from
>  >  your typical .xsiaddon file.
>  >
>  >  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.
>  >
>  >  Any help appreciated.
>  >  Cheers,
>  >
>  >     -- Alan
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