Whaaaaa???? THAT may be why I was getting intermittent success with a socket
based file transfer utility I developed! I wonder what base64Decode does with a
base64Encoded string if you remove the carriage returns first? I’m going to
have to research that.
Bob S
> On Apr 25, 2024, at 7:57 AM, Andreas Bergendal via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> The problem may be that base64 encoding inserts line breaks after every 76
> chars (a remnant from terminal monitor width restrictions, apparently).
> I ran into this a while ago, and cleaning the encoded string with “replace
> cr with empty in tString” solved it for me.
> I don’t think any textEncode/Decode should be needed after that (Python is
> a different animal after all… :)
>
> /Andreas
>
> ons 24 apr. 2024 kl. 20:46 skrev David Bovill via use-livecode <
> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>:
>
>> I need to put encodeImageData into json (which is utf-8) and then post it
>> to the api. I'm not sure what aspects of base64 encoding would not be utf8
>> compatible... seem to remember there are some quirks there to be aware of.
>> The python code does the decode("utf-8") step at the end - so I guess
>> there is some issue with raw base64 encoding in json?
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 19:26, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/24/2024 1:43 PM, David Bovill via use-livecode wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to base64 encode an image and include it into a json file to
>>>> post to an api. The python code that accomplishes this is:
>>>>
>>>> image1_data =
>>>> base64.b64encode(httpx.get(image1_url).content).decode("utf-8")
>>>>
>>>> When I try to follow the logic in Livecode I get:
>>>>
>>>> put url imageUrl into sImage
>>>> put base64Encode (sImage) into base64Image
>>>> put textDecode (base64Image, "UTF-8") into encodedImageData
>>>>
>>>> However the api complains that the image is not encoded properly.
>> Adding
>>> or
>>>> removing the "textDecode" step does not help. Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is just a guess, but I thing your last line needs to be:
>>>
>>> put textEncode(base64Image,"UTF-8") into encodedImageData
>>>
>>> textDecode in Livecode converts from the format (UTF-8) to Livecode's
>>> 16bit internal unicode
>>>
>>> textEncode converts from livecode's internal 16bit unicode to the
>>> indicated format (UTF-8).
>>
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