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extract_url.pl 1.3.3 (Default branch)
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MIME::Base64::URLSafe(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation MIME::Base64::URLSafe(3pm) NAME
MIME::Base64::URLSafe - Perl version of Python's URL-safe base64 codec SYNOPSIS
use MIME::Base64::URLSafe; $encoded = urlsafe_b64encode('Alladdin: open sesame'); $decoded = urlsafe_b64decode($encoded); DESCRIPTION
This module is a perl version of python's URL-safe base64 encoder / decoder. When embedding binary data in URL, it is preferable to use base64 encoding. However, two characters ('+' and '/') used in the standard base64 encoding have special meanings in URLs, often leading to re-encoding with URL-encoding, or worse, interoperability problems. To overcome the problem, the module provides a variation of base64 codec compatible with python's urlsafe_b64encode / urlsafe_b64decode. Modification rules from base64: use '-' and '_' instead of '+' and '/' no line feeds no trailing equals (=) The following functions are provided: urlsafe_b64encode($str) urlsafe_b64decode($str) If you prefer not to import these routines to your namespace, you can call them as: use MIME::Base64::URLSafe (); $encoded = MIME::Base64::URLSafe::encode($decoded); $decoded = MIME::Base64::URLSafe::decode($encoded); SEE ALSO
MIME::Base64 Fore more discussion on using base64 encoding in URL applications, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#URL_Applications AUTHOR
Kazuho Oku <kazuho ___at___ labs.cybozu.co.jp> Copyright (C) 2006 Cybozu Labs, Inc. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available. perl v5.8.8 2006-01-05 MIME::Base64::URLSafe(3pm)