title: Convert String to Byte Array without Encoding?
body: <p>So I have a string with Binary Data like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>String lob = "ÿØÿà...";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I really have no control over this so I have to take it as it is.  So I need to convert this as an InputStream without changing it, if I just do:</p>
  
  <pre><code>getBytes()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It will use the default encoding, how do I do this without any encoding or modification?</p>
  
  <p>EdIT:</p>
  
  <p>I can't fix this from the source.   I do know the original data is a image loaded from HTML GET, but I don't know how it was encoded during transfer .  All I have right now is a really long string and I need to convert it back and save it into a database. </p>