Sending binary data over http

Question

I am looking for suggestions on the best way to send/receive data from a remote GPRS device, over port 80.

Creating a plain TCP socket on a random port works fine, but m

Answer 1

If possible, you could just send the data as HTTP requests and responses.

HTTP is perfectly capable of handling binary data: images are sent over HTTP all the time, and they're binary. People upload and download files of arbitrary data types all the time with no problem.

Just give it a mime type of "application/octet-stream" -- which is basically a generic mime type for binary data with no further specification of just what sort -- and any proxies along the way should leave it alone.