# # $Id: Base64.pm,v 2.14 1999/02/27 20:40:04 gisle Exp $ package MIME::Base64; =head1 NAME MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings =head1 SYNOPSIS use MIME::Base64; $encoded = encode_base64('Aladdin:open sesame'); $decoded = decode_base64($encoded); =head1 DESCRIPTION This module provides functions to encode and decode strings into the Base64 encoding specified in RFC 2045 - I. The Base64 encoding is designed to represent arbitrary sequences of octets in a form that need not be humanly readable. A 65-character subset ([A-Za-z0-9+/=]) of US-ASCII is used, enabling 6 bits to be represented per printable character. The following functions are provided: =over 4 =item encode_base64($str, [$eol]) Encode data by calling the encode_base64() function. The first argument is the string to encode. The second argument is the line ending sequence to use (it is optional and defaults to C<"\n">). The returned encoded string is broken into lines of no more than 76 characters each and it will end with $eol unless it is empty. Pass an empty string as second argument if you do not want the encoded string broken into lines. =item decode_base64($str) Decode a base64 string by calling the decode_base64() function. This function takes a single argument which is the string to decode and returns the decoded data. Any character not part of the 65-character base64 subset set is silently ignored. Characters occuring after a '=' padding character are never decoded. If the length of the string to decode (after ignoring non-base64 chars) is not a multiple of 4 or padding occurs too ealy, then a warning is generated if perl is running under C<-w>. =back If you prefer not to import these routines into your namespace you can call them as: use MIME::Base64 (); $encoded = MIME::Base64::encode($decoded); $decoded = MIME::Base64::decode($encoded); =head1 DIAGNOSTICS The following warnings might be generated if perl is invoked with the C<-w> switch: =over 4 =item Premature end of base64 data The number of characters to decode is not a multiple of 4. Legal base64 data should be padded with one or two "=" characters to make its length a multiple of 4. The decoded result will anyway be as if the padding was there. =item Premature padding of base64 data The '=' padding character occurs as the first or second character in a base64 quartet. =back =head1 EXAMPLES If you want to encode a large file, you should encode it in chunks that are a multiple of 57 bytes. This ensures that the base64 lines line up and that you do not end up with padding in the middle. 57 bytes of data fills one complete base64 line (76 == 57*4/3): use MIME::Base64 qw(encode_base64); open(FILE, "/var/log/wtmp") or die "$!"; while (read(FILE, $buf, 60*57)) { print encode_base64($buf); } or if you know you have enough memory use MIME::Base64 qw(encode_base64); local($/) = undef; # slurp print encode_base64(); =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright 1995-1999 Gisle Aas. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Distantly based on LWP::Base64 written by Martijn Koster and Joerg Reichelt and code posted to comp.lang.perl <3pd2lp$6gf@wsinti07.win.tue.nl> by Hans Mulder The XS implementation use code from metamail. Copyright 1991 Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore) =cut use strict; use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT $VERSION $OLD_CODE); require Exporter; require DynaLoader; @ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader); @EXPORT = qw(encode_base64 decode_base64); $VERSION = '2.11'; eval { bootstrap MIME::Base64 $VERSION; }; if ($@) { # can't bootstrap XS implementation, use perl implementation *encode_base64 = \&old_encode_base64; *decode_base64 = \&old_decode_base64; $OLD_CODE = $@; #warn $@ if $^W; } # Historically this module has been implemented as pure perl code. # The XS implementation runs about 20 times faster, but the Perl # code might be more portable, so it is still here. use integer; sub old_encode_base64 ($;$) { my $res = ""; my $eol = $_[1]; $eol = "\n" unless defined $eol; pos($_[0]) = 0; # ensure start at the beginning while ($_[0] =~ /(.{1,45})/gs) { $res .= substr(pack('u', $1), 1); chop($res); } $res =~ tr|` -_|AA-Za-z0-9+/|; # `# help emacs # fix padding at the end my $padding = (3 - length($_[0]) % 3) % 3; $res =~ s/.{$padding}$/'=' x $padding/e if $padding; # break encoded string into lines of no more than 76 characters each if (length $eol) { $res =~ s/(.{1,76})/$1$eol/g; } $res; } sub old_decode_base64 ($) { local($^W) = 0; # unpack("u",...) gives bogus warning in 5.00[123] my $str = shift; my $res = ""; $str =~ tr|A-Za-z0-9+=/||cd; # remove non-base64 chars if (length($str) % 4) { require Carp; Carp::carp("Length of base64 data not a multiple of 4") } $str =~ s/=+$//; # remove padding $str =~ tr|A-Za-z0-9+/| -_|; # convert to uuencoded format while ($str =~ /(.{1,60})/gs) { my $len = chr(32 + length($1)*3/4); # compute length byte $res .= unpack("u", $len . $1 ); # uudecode } $res; } # Set up aliases so that these functions also can be called as # # MIME::Base64::encode(); # MIME::Base64::decode(); *encode = \&encode_base64; *decode = \&decode_base64; 1;