tags 28942 notabug
close 28942
stop
(triaging old bugs)
On 2017-10-22 10:13 a.m., Aaron Schneider wrote:
I try to decode the "thunder://" link to the "magnet://" link using
base64. For me, it adds 'AA' at the beginning (0x4141) which shouldn't
be there.
* Website:
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thunder://QUFtYWduZXQ6P3h0PXVybjpidGloOmY5YWFkZDYxY2EzM2ZkMWQwYzQ3Mjk2MTQwZTg4ZmFmMWYzZGQyYTJaWg==
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magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f9aadd61ca33fd1d0c47296140e88faf1f3dd2a2
* My base64 (happens on all versions I've tried):
echo
QUFtYWduZXQ6P3h0PXVybjpidGloOmY5YWFkZDYxY2EzM2ZkMWQwYzQ3Mjk2MTQwZTg4ZmFmMWYzZGQyYTJaWg==
| base64 -d
AAmagnet:?xt=urn:btih:f9aadd61ca33fd1d0c47296140e88faf1f3dd2a2ZZ
It seems your message was lost and not replied to in a eyar.
Sorry about that.
If you try to encode the "magnet://" string to base64,
you'll get:
$ echo "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f9aadd61ca33fd1d0c47296140e88faf1f3dd2a2" \
| base64 -w0 ; echo
bWFnbmV0Oj94dD11cm46YnRpaDpmOWFhZGQ2MWNhMzNmZDFkMGM0NzI5NjE0MGU4OGZhZjFmM2RkMmEyCg==
Which means your encoded string (the one starting with "QUF") is
not identical to the encoded "magnet://" string.
As such, I'm closing this bug.
If this is still an issue, discussion can continue by replying to this
thread.
-assaf
