Send and receive binary data over web sockets in Javascript?

Question

It is possible to send and receive binary data over web sockets in Javascript? Could I, for example, implement an SSH client using web sockets?

Answer 1

One good and safe way to send and receive binary data is with base64 or base128 (where 128 has just 1/7 overhead instead of 1/3).

Yes an SSH Client is possible.

A proof for this is that there are already a lot of solutions out there that run in common browsers, but most of them still needs a custom server side implementation. You can look here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-based_SSH