[jdev] base64 line endings

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> I'll add this to my open issues list for JEP-0084...
> 
> Norman Rasmussen wrote:
>>> It seems that JEP-0084 is inadvertently conflicting with itself by
>>> saying that data must be encoded the RFC 3548 way, and not explicitly
>>> allowing line feeds.
>>>
>>> So something to add to JEP-0084 v0.8 would be to explicitly allow line feeds.
>>>
>>> JEP-0084: User Avatar refers to RFC 3548 (The Base16, Base32, and
>>> Base64 Data Encodings), and in Section 2.1 it says:
>>>
>>>    Implementations MUST NOT not add line feeds to base encoded data
>>>    unless the specification referring to this document explicitly
>>>    directs base encoders to add line feeds after a specific number of
>>>    characters.
>>>
>>> In  XML Schemas (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#base64Binary) it says:
>>>
>>>    For compatibility with older mail gateways, [RFC 2045] suggests
>>> that base64 data should have lines limited to at most 76 characters in
>>> length. This line-length limitation is not mandated in the lexical
>>> forms of base64Binary data and must not be enforced by XML Schema
>>> processors.

Oh, and BTW, we are not interacting with older email gateways... :-)

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml

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