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02/13/2015

06:26 PM Ruby Feature #10740: Base64 urlsafe methods are not urlsafe

Awesome, thanks! dragonsinth (Scott Blum)

01/31/2015

11:31 PM Ruby Feature #10740: Base64 urlsafe methods are not urlsafe

Awesome. :) dragonsinth (Scott Blum)

01/16/2015

08:57 PM Ruby Feature #10740: Base64 urlsafe methods are not urlsafe

Updated https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/815 and merged in changes from Yusuke Endoh dragonsinth (Scott Blum)

07:06 PM Ruby Feature #10740: Base64 urlsafe methods are not urlsafe

That looks awesome. I'll update my PR. dragonsinth (Scott Blum)

01/14/2015

07:56 PM Ruby Feature #10740: Base64 urlsafe methods are not urlsafe

I suspect the reason the spec is that way is that it's easier to calculate what the decoded length will be if the encoding is always divisible by 4, since it's just `(encoded_len / 4) * 3`. It makes more since in the context of wire pro... dragonsinth (Scott Blum)

01/13/2015

11:15 PM Ruby Feature #10740: Base64 urlsafe methods are not urlsafe

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/815 dragonsinth (Scott Blum)

11:11 PM Ruby Feature #10740: Base64 urlsafe methods are not urlsafe

Note that SecureRandom.urlsafe_base64 does the right thing by default, with the note "By default, padding is not generated because "=" may be used as a URL delimiter." dragonsinth (Scott Blum)

11:07 PM Ruby Feature #10740 (Closed): Base64 urlsafe methods are not urlsafe

Base64.urlsafe_decode64 is not to spec, because it currently REQUIRES appropriate trailing '=' characters.
Base64.urlsafe_encode64 produces trailing '=' characters.
'=' is not web safe, and is not recommended for base64url. Some spe... dragonsinth (Scott Blum)