Re: base-64 ignored

On Thursday, 26 May 2022 11:22:45 EDT Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 26. Mai 2022 14:31:59 CEST gene heskett wrote:
> > The following email from a business is not being decoded.
> > ------=_Part_29546_1281477845.1653517724260
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> > 
> > 77u/
> > Cgo8IURPQ1RZUEUgaHRtbCBQVUJMSUMgIi0vL1czQy8vRFREIFhIVE1MIDEuMCBUcmFuc
> > 2l0
> > 
> > +83k of additional data, ending in:
> > 
> > ------=_Part_29546_1281477845.1653517724260--
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> Probably a bug in KMail. Maybe it's confused because the first line
> contains only 4 characters. `base64 --decode` could decode the data
> without problems.
> 
it's not 77u/ alone on a line, its all one line as displayed in kmail.
is the / an illegal char in base 64?

 
> Regards,
> Ingo


Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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