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Re: Re: Binary Encoding using Base64

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• Subject: Re: Re: Binary Encoding using Base64
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:29:49 -0500
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> > contrary to the Base64 encoding spec, Microsoft embeds <cr><lf> characters 
> > in the output.
> 
> What spec says linebreaks are not allowed in base64?
> /r$

Actually, line breaks are required. The spec says:

<quote>
The encoded output stream must be represented in lines of no more
than 76 characters each.  All line breaks or other characters not
found in Table 1 must be ignored by decoding software.
</quote>

And furthermore, any other character should simply be ignored,
i.e. not cause an error to be returned.

Karl

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