OT: base64 decoding

Brian K. White brian at aljex.com
Thu May 7 16:42:40 PDT 2009



Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Richard Kreiss wrote:
>   
>> Received an email from my wife which had been bounced back as undeliverable
>> to another party.
>>
>> In the body of the email is text apparently encoded in base64.
>>
>> Windows xp - Outlook 2007.
>>
>> Are there an tools I can use to decode (make readable) this information.
>>
>> Subject:
>> =?utf-8?B?UmVzdGF1cmFudCBJbnZpdGF0aW9uIGZyb20gU3VzYW4gS3JlaXNz?=
>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>>     
>
> Well, I have a plugin for Thunderbird that does it:
>
>      UmVzdGF1cmFudCBJbnZpdGF0aW9uIGZyb20gU3VzYW4gS3JlaXNz
> ==>
>      Restaurant Invitation from Susan Kreiss
>
> I think I recall someone writing a BASE64 encode/decode in filePro some time 
> back?  (Or maybe someone was just talking about it, but didn't actually do 
> it?  It's been several years.)
>
> If you need, there are plenty of online BASE64 decoders available.  Just 
> search for "base64 decoder".
>
>      http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/Base64Decode/
>   

I made a url encode/decode in filepro and in c.
I think Nancy said she made a base64.

-- 
bkw


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