Re: [Bug 4895] base64 encoding does not allow whitespace

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:56:38 +0000, you wrote:

>extraneous whitespace is not valid in base64 encoding

That should be, "Whitespace is not valid in a URI, even if that URI
contains embedded base64-encoded data."

Whitespace _is_ perfectly valid in base64-encoded data in general, of
course.

Interestingly, while RFC 2396 prohibits whitespace in a URI, the example
given in RFC 2397 showing baseb4-encoded data embedded in a URI _does_
include whitespace.

Steve Schafer
Fenestra Technologies Corp.
http://www.fenestra.com/

Received on Monday, 30 July 2007 20:55:42 UTC