How do I do a Base 64 decode?
Thanks, Nik -- Nik Hole > From: Chris Ridd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 11:00:42 +0100 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Blank e-mail - unreadable text > > Nik Hole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sometimes, when a certain company sends me e-mails, I get the company >> disclaimer but cannot read the body text. Is it possible that it is some >> problem with being able to read their variant of HTML or something? I >> tried getting them to CC e-mails to my hotmail account. One time, this >> cured the problem if I read it from Hotmail rather than Entourage X. >> >> When I look at the source code of the e-mail there is a section which >> looks like ti may be meant to be the text: >> >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 >> Content-Description: Internet HTML >> PEhUTUw+DQo8SEVBRD4NCjxUSVRMRT5Qb3RlbnRpYWwgc2VwYXJhdGUgc291cmNlcyBvZiBtb >> 2Jp >> bGUgZGF0YTwvVElUTEU+DQo8L0hFQUQ+DQo8Qk9EWT4NCjxGT05UIEZBQ0U9IlZlcmRhbmEiP >> kRl >> YXIgWm9lLDxCUj4NCjxCUj4NCkkgd2FzIGFza2VkIHRvIGxpc3QgYWxsIHRoZSBwb3RlbnRpY >> Wwg >> ZGF0YSBzb3VyY2VzIGZvciBtb2JpbGUgZGF0YSAocmUgdGhlIE1vYmlsZSBsaXN0aW5ncyBzb >> 2x1 >> >> >> ------=_NextPart_001_3FF2_01C1F190.829D0E00-- > > If you do a base64 decode of the above chunk of "gobbledegook" it looks > like reasonablish (if non-HTML 4 compliant) HTML: > > <HTML> > <HEAD> > <TITLE>Potential separate sources of mobile data</TITLE> > </HEAD> > <BODY> > <FONT FACE="Verdana">Dear Zoe,<BR> > <BR> > I was asked to list all the potential data sources for mobile data (re the > Mobile listings solu > > > But, whether Entourage is processing it as HTML depends on some of the MIME > headers that you haven't included. The most important one is the > "Content-Type", which should be something like text/html. Is there more > base64 as well? > > Cheers, > > Chris > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
