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Base64 Is Base65

4 points by gizmore · 2 comments · 1 min read


Because there is a special padding character '='

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bob1029

The padding character is not required for the underlying encoding scheme to function in isolation. It becomes more useful when you have a stream of multiple, un-delimited base64 values that need to be processed.

pestatije

'=' is not part of the payload. It belongs to the carrier protocol to signal end of payload.

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