Originally Posted by rickholio

GD isn't required for file uploads, only for times when you want to do things like GetImageSize(). If you're purely shuffling bytes around, you don't need it.

Binary/Ascii only should apply when dealing with FTP transfers. Web-based uploads don't have the same caveats (or at least they shouldn't!), but that's part of the reason why I wanted to see a before image and an after image, so I could see if there was some sort of corruption going on during the upload phase.