> From: John Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: Re: Bas64 encoding performance > + if (sixBit < 64) { > + if (gotEquals) throw new Error("= character not at end of base64 > value");
Technically, if you look at the RFC (which is probably the correct yardstick for a cross-system base64 implementation), you'll see that this isn't quite the correct behavior. Among other things, whitespace and illegal characters are to be ignored. RFC 2045, S6.8: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt -- Paul
