Hi Samir,

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Samir van de Sand
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, thank you for your reply. However, I still don't understand why I should
> save cookie contents with base64 encoding? They aren't binary data?

Nicolas already gave you the answer:

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Nicolas Perriault <[email protected]> wrote:
> Base64 is often used because it's charset safe (only ascii characters
> are used to represent the encoded content)

Imagine a cookie that contains special characters like €, ö, é etc.
These characters are not ASCII characters, but if you encode them with
base64, they will be encoded using ASCII characters (gA==, 9g== and
6Q== in this case). Thus you receive a valid ASCII string that can
safely be stored in the cookie.


Bernhard

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