Re: base-64 ignored

On Thursday, 26 May 2022 12:45:47 EDT gene heskett wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 May 2022 12:25:48 EDT Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Donnerstag, 26. Mai 2022 18:11:39 CEST gene heskett wrote:
> > > 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/
> > > > > Cgo8IURPQ1RZUEUgaHRtbCBQVUJMSUMgIi0vL1czQy8vRFREIFhIVE1MIDEuMCB
> > > > > Uc
> > > > > mFuc
> > > > > 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?
> > 
> > Ah, okay. So the line got word-wrapped in your email. No, / is a
> > legal
> > char in base64. Maybe the end of the base64-encoded data is broken.
> > Try decoding the data with `base64 --decode`.
> 
> How do I go about that? Its typically around 90k of base64. Miltipart
> mixed IOW.

So curiosity having killed the cat, but I'm a survivor, I clicked on the 
first line, held the mouse button down for about 10 minutes till I got to 
the end of the base64 with the down-arrow, pasted that into a new file in 
geany, then saved it in /home/gene/Public/digikey.html since thats what 
it looks like. Firefox can't find it at file:///localhost/home/gene/
Public/digikey.html

What did I do wrong?

> > Regards,
> > Ingo
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.


Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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