Hi,
Bhasker C V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to encode using base64 to get data for SMTP
> authentication which i am experimenting upon. I stumbled upon this
> issue. I am not sure why this is happening.
>
> Say the text to be encoded is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>
> $ perl
> use MIME::Base64;
> print encode_base64("[EMAIL PROTECTED]");
> aGVscC5jb20=
Perl understands the "@base" as an array here. So you only encode
"help.com" in base64. Use ' instead of " and you get
aGVscEBiYXNlLmNvbQ==
> $ echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" | openssl base64
> aGVscEBiYXNlLmNvbQo=
Now the only difference is the new-line produced by echo.
Regards,
Ansgar
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