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- License:
- Donationware
- Price:
- FREE
- Publisher Name:
- Roedy Green
- Publisher web site:
- http://www.mindprod.com/
- Operating Systems:
- Mac OS X 10.0 or later
- File Size:
- 519 KB
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Java classes to encode/decode Base64 and Base64u Base64 is a freeware way of encoding 8-bit characters using only ASCII printable characters similar to UUENCODE. UUENCODE embeds a filename where BASE64 does not. You will see BASE64 used in encoding digital certificates, in encoding user:password string in an Authorization: header for HTTP. Don't confuse Base64 with x-www-form-urlencoded which is handled by java.net.URLEncoder.encode/decode or Base64u.The characters used by Base64 are A-Z a-z 0-9 +/=. This makes it suitable for encoding binary data as SQL strings, that will work no matter what the encoding. Unfortunately + / and = all have special meaning in URLs. Base64u gets around this problem. It is a variant on Base64 that uses - _ and * in preference to + / and =, so that it can be used in URLEncoded contexts with or without URLEncoding.NOTE: Base64 is for non-military use only. Requirements: · Java 1.5 or later
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