Comments on: ActionScript 3.0 Base64 encoder/decoder

By: Drawing game for future world @ Goonhilly at tezzutezzu

Drawing game for future world @ Goonhilly at tezzutezzu — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:42:40 +0000

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By: Karenism » Archive » php v as3

Karenism » Archive » php v as3 — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:07:36 +0000

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By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:07:30 +0000

Hi, good job
but i’m a little confused if it could work in flash professional 9.

Now i’m in a project which will implement a funtion: encoding and decoding xml files.

Pls give me some how to run it,thanks!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:44:48 +0000

Just an update for those following the comment thread. Jacob’s problem wasn’t caused by the Base64 class in the end, but by some weird URL encoding issue on his server.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:25:05 +0000

Jacob: Thanks for the bug report. I’ll look into it and get back to you.

By: Jacob Bullock

Jacob Bullock — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:36:39 +0000

Steve, i have been using your class ona project where all data coming and going to the server is in byte arrays and we just stumbled onto a problem that we traced back to the class. It is believed that it has something to do with the + character as every fail case has a + in it and every success does not. I wish i had more info to give you, but the following string does not decode properly as far as I can tell: AAAAGQAAAAFGr7V+AAA4QAEyQUvPWZYpIl1fnYE1uzacIzliDl/z3SOaBL7+470r

going to investigate the issue more but thought you may be interested.

By: Tamir

Tamir — Thu, 17 May 2007 08:50:49 +0000

I’m running into some kind of problem that might come from the Base64 encoder :
I’m encoding a JPEG ByteArray, and then I try to upload it to a Servlet (the upload is done using JavaScript).

I’m decoding it in Java using the apache-commons-codec package, and the resulting byte array is different from the source !!

Have you seen anything like that ?

By: Webdevotion

Webdevotion — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:50:02 +0000

Thanks Steve, your class saved me a lot of time when I ran into a problem sending a bytearray to my CFC. It would not accept it as binary.

Your class made it possible to send the string to my CFC and convert it to binary data using ToBinary. Problem solved ; )

Great work!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:05:58 +0000

Paulius: Good job - glad to hear it was useful.

Jason: Yeah, I saw John’s version, but I needed one that could handle both String and ByteArray information. Still, as you say, its good to have alternatives.

By: Jason Nussbaum

Jason Nussbaum — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:56:48 +0000

I had ported a Javascript implementation to AS 2.0 a while back, and John over at undefined.com ported it over to AS 3.0.

http://blog.jasonnussbaum.com/?p=108
http://undefined.com/ia/2006/05/25/base64-encoding-for-actionscript-3flex-20/

Obviously, you don’t need it, but it’s there as an alternative…