Class Base64

java.lang.Object
org.apache.tomcat.util.codec.binary.BaseNCodec
org.apache.tomcat.util.codec.binary.Base64

@Deprecated public class Base64 extends BaseNCodec
Deprecated.
Unused. This class will be removed in Tomcat 11 onwards.
Provides Base64 encoding and decoding as defined by RFC 2045.

This class implements section 6.8. Base64 Content-Transfer-Encoding from RFC 2045 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies by Freed and Borenstein.

The class can be parameterized in the following manner with various constructors:

  • URL-safe mode: Default off.
  • Line length: Default 76. Line length that aren't multiples of 4 will still essentially end up being multiples of 4 in the encoded data.
  • Line separator: Default is CRLF ("\r\n")

The URL-safe parameter is only applied to encode operations. Decoding seamlessly handles both modes.

Since this class operates directly on byte streams, and not character streams, it is hard-coded to only encode/decode character encodings which are compatible with the lower 127 ASCII chart (ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252, UTF-8, etc).

This class is thread-safe.

Since:
1.0
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