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Re: encode/decode support for base64url

Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com> — 2025-08-06T19:42:48Z

On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Attaching v6 again because it wasn't picked up the last time.
> Trying from Gmail's web page this time.
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> On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 1 Aug 2025, at 1:13 PM, Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
>> wrote:
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>>> > On 12 Jul 2025, at 21:40, David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Thank you! This looks great. The attached revision makes a a couple of
>>> minor changes:
>>>
>>> I also had a look at this today and agree that it looks pretty close to
>>> being
>>> done, and a feature we IMHO would like to have.
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>> Thanks for having a look Daniel!
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>> The attached version also adds a commit message, tweaks the documentation
>>> along
>>> with a few small changes to error message handling etc.
>>>
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>> In the doc snippet
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>> > The base64url alphabet use '-' instead of '+' and '_' instead
>> of '/' and also omits the '=' padding character.
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>> Should be
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>> > The base64url alphabet use*s* '-' instead of '+' and '_' instead of '/'*,
>> *and also omits the '=' padding character.
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>> I'd also add a comma before "and also"
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>>> The base64 code this extends is the RFC 2045 variant while base64url is
>>> based
>>> on base64 from RFC 3548 (obsoleted by RFC 4648).  AFAICT this is not a
>>> problem
>>> here but has anyone else verified this?
>>>
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>> I don't see how this can be a problem in practice.
>> The conversions are straightforward,
>> and the codepath used with url=true is a new one and doesn't change past
>> behavior.
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>> Here’s a v6; necessary because func.sgml was split .
>> No other changes compared to v5.
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v6 introduced some whitespace errors in the regression files.

Here's a v7 that fixes that