http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T06:40:20 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funca108.htm#25905 bug in mx seems to add an extraneous character to strings you run toBase64 on so that when you run toBinary on them they do not convert properly and do not appear to be base64 strings. To fix this you need to put the trim function around your string when you use toBinary<br /><br />ie<br /><cfset base64version = #tobase64(myimage)#><br /><cfset binaryversion = #tobinary(trim(base64version))#> mkeller 0 0 2004-12-28T11:31:28