I have similar questions about the down load of file via the REST interface, I have a little python program which uses the method suggested by Christopher Gillis, below.
Eli Donahue article title "Uploading Files via Aras RESTful API" is very helpful.
The documentation does not talk about transaction method for downloading only up loading. Some of the we are playing are very in the order of 500MB so I expect totake quite a while.
The other question is about the encoding methods which are used you point to W3 page which talks about HTML URL Encode but it does not give it a name like base64 encoding.
I have downloaded plain text file with no problems, but pdf file have binary character and these cause a problem. Any suggestion as to type of encoding/decoding I should be looking for, it would be nice down loaded from the body test was a
