Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> This patch makes the base64 decoding tolerant on carriage returns,
> spaces and tabs. It is quite common to find PEM encoded files (base64
> with new lines) containing such characters and having a tolerant decoder
> is a plus.
Hi Nikos,
Have you considered pre-filtering the data you pass to the base64-decoding
function? We considered what you're proposing when adding the
--ignore-garbage option to the command-line base64 program:
$ base64 --help
Usage: base64 [OPTION]... [FILE]
Base64 encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output.
-d, --decode decode data
-i, --ignore-garbage when decoding, ignore non-alphabet characters
