Best would depend on what you are encoding. If the thing you are encoding is mostly URL safe then using URL escaping might give you the smallest result. If it is 8bit data then BASE64URL will give you a smaller result than HEX encoding.
JWT use BASE64URL as a datapoint. John B. > On Apr 7, 2015, at 3:58 AM, Sergey Beryozkin <sberyoz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > Would it be correct to assume that the best method for encoding the > auto-generated bearer tokens is Base64URL ? I've spotted recently some of our > code uses the Hex encoding which I believe is inferior compared to Base64URL > given that the latter has a richer set of characters. > > Is it a correct assumption ? > > Thanks, Sergey > > _______________________________________________ > OAuth mailing list > OAuth@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth _______________________________________________ OAuth mailing list OAuth@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth
