Passing base64 encoded strings in URL

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There are additional base64 specs. (See the table here for specifics ). But essentially you need 65 chars to encode: 26 lowercase + 26 uppercase + 10 digits = 62.

You need two more [‘+’, “https://stackoverflow.com/”] and a padding char ‘=’. But none of them are url friendly, so just use different chars for them and you’re set. The standard ones from the chart above are [‘-‘, ‘_’], but you could use other chars as long as you decoded them the same, and didn’t need to share with others.

I’d recommend just writing your own helpers. Like these from the comments on the php manual page for base64_encode:

function base64_url_encode($input) {
 return strtr(base64_encode($input), '+/=', '._-');
}

function base64_url_decode($input) {
 return base64_decode(strtr($input, '._-', '+/='));
}

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