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As far as I know base64 is not guaranteed to be uri safe, though most of the time you should be fine. However more importantly converting to base64 automaticall
by KilledByAPixel 7y ago
As far as I know base64 is not guaranteed to be uri safe, though most of the time you should be fine. However more importantly converting to base64 automatically increases the size by 33%
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowBase64/Base64_encoding_and_decoding https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowBase6...
- CodesInChaos 7y agoThe parent poster was referring to the "base64url" variant of Base64 which uses `-` and `_` as the two special characters and leaves out the useless padding, making it url safe. (The 33% expansion still applies though) https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648#page-7 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648#page-7