[CODEC-36] [codec] Support of Base 64 Encoding with URL and Filename Safe Alphabet

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.x

Environment

Operating System: other
Platform: All

• Bugzilla Id: 31961
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Alain Gilbert
• Created: 29/Oct/04 20:48
• Updated: 16/Jul/09 23:59
• Resolved: 16/Jul/09 23:28

Description

The default Base64 alphabet is not safe to use for URL query parameters since
the '+' character is converted to a ' ' (space) when the parameter value is
retrieved from the request (ServeltRequest.getParameter(String)
and .getParameterValues(String)).

It is possible to post-process the result of Base64.encodeBase64 but I would
rather prefer to specify an alternate alphabet or call another method.

Refer to http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3548.txt section 4 for more information.

Regards,
Alain Gilbert

Issue Links

• duplicates: CODEC-75 Make Base64 URL-safe
• duplicates: CODEC-78 Base64: Improve Code Coverage