Read a binary file (jpg) to a string using c++

Question

I need to read a jpg file to a string. I want to upload this file to our server, I just find out that the API requires a string as the data of this pic. I followed the sugge

Answer 1

Open the file in binary mode, otherwise it will have funny behavior, and it will handle certain non-text characters in inappropriate ways, at least on Windows.

ifstream fin("cloud.jpg", ios::binary);

Also, instead of a while loop, you can just read the whole file in one shot:

ostrm << fin.rdbuf();