Right now I suspect that most servers contain routines for decoding base64, but not encoding and most clients have routines for encoding and not decoding. If clients support data: urls, they have to be able to decode base64. The implentation of base64 is fairly simple; I've seen a 24 line implmentation of the decoder in the `awk' language. If we imagine a day when Basic no longer exists there will be no need for base64 in server or client. I doubt base64 will ever stop existing. It will probably always be present for backwards compatibility. Servers could stop supporting it (most web servers I use already don't use it, since the info on them is publicly accessible), but a client might as well keep code that supports it, in case a user ever needs it.Received on Wednesday, 31 December 1997 20:34:26 UTC
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