It means: make it safe to be passed in an url. Base64 encoded data can still contain "+", "=" and “/" which may confuse the browser/server.
Example: data: "some data" becomes base64 encoded: ZGF0YTogInNvbWUgZGF0YSI= and url encoded: ZGF0YTogInNvbWUgZGF0YSI%3D To play with it, see: https://www.base64encode.org/ http://www.albionresearch.com/misc/urlencode.php Regards, Remi On 28/02/16 15:52, "Nux!" <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: >Suresh, > >Can you please rephrase that? What's "urlencoded"? > >-- >Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > >Nux! >www.nux.ro > >----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Suresh Sadhu" <suresh.sa...@citrix.com> >> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >> Sent: Sunday, 28 February, 2016 14:49:08 >> Subject: RE: User data is not base64 encoded > >> Hi, >> >> After converting userdata to base64 format and make it urlencoded then pass >> the >> userdata string as api parameter. >> >> >> Regards >> Sadhu >> >> ________________________________________ >> ________________________________ >> From: Yacubovich, David <dyacubov...@collegeboard.org> >> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 12:30 PM >> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >> Subject: User data is not base64 encoded >> >> Hello All, >> I am trying to test the use of userdata on CS 4.6. I am creating new instance >> from the UI and I paste the base64 encoded string into the userdata box. But >> I >> get this error every time. I can't find any examples of how to use userdata >> online. Can someone please give me an example of how this should work? >> >> Here is m example: >> >> # echo "env: poclab >> container: tomcat" | base64 >> ZW52OiBwb2NsYWIKY29udGFpbmVyOiB0b21jYXQK >> >> And I paste this string into userdata box. >> >> Thanks, >> David
