[thelist] javascript for base64 encoding

Joe Crawford joe at artlung.com
Sun Mar 26 05:23:41 2000


James Spahr wrote:
> 
> is there a method for doing base64 encoding/ decoding in javascript?
> (or does anyone know of a library that will do it?)

In JavaScript? Sounds non-trivial.

Here's an RFC that defines it:
http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/2045/rfc2045.html

And a definition:
http://nightflight.com/cgi-bin/foldoc.cgi?base+64

I did find some C source code though:
http://www.scripting.com/midas/base64/source.html

FWIW,
	Joe
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