Hi Edward,
Not only are there plans, they have already been set in motion as well. Exact details to follow but high level the plan is to allow picking up a while as the [partial] body of an ExecuteHttpRequest and having it base64 encoded before being injected in the body, but also an equivalent function that allows such encoding returning the result as a string as well as decoding a string and storing the result into a file.
Would either of these cover the scenario you are looking at?
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Hubert Heijkers
STSM, Program Director TM1 Functional Database Technology and OData Evangelist
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