# = base64.rb: methods for base64-encoding and -decoding stings
# Author:: Yukihiro Matsumoto
# Documentation:: Dave Thomas and Gavin Sinclair
# Until Ruby 1.8.1, these methods were defined at the top-level. Now
# they are in the Base64 module but included in the top-level, where
# their usage is deprecated.
# See Base64 for documentation.
# The Base64 module provides for the encoding (#encode64) and decoding
# (#decode64) of binary data using a Base64 representation.
# The following particular features are also provided:
# - encode into lines of a given length (#b64encode)
# - decode the special format specified in RFC2047 for the
# representation of email headers (decode_b)
# A simple encoding and decoding.
# enc = Base64.encode64('Send reinforcements')
# # -> "U2VuZCByZWluZm9yY2VtZW50cw==\n"
# plain = Base64.decode64(enc)
# # -> "Send reinforcements"
# The purpose of using base64 to encode data is that it translates any
# binary data into purely printable characters. It is specified in
# RFC 2045 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2045.html).
# Returns the Base64-decoded version of +str+.
# str = 'VGhpcyBpcyBsaW5lIG9uZQpUaGlzIG' +
# 'lzIGxpbmUgdHdvClRoaXMgaXMgbGlu' +
# 'ZSB0aHJlZQpBbmQgc28gb24uLi4K'
# puts Base64.decode64(str)
# Decodes text formatted using a subset of RFC2047 (the one used for
# mime-encoding mail headers).
# Only supports an encoding type of 'b' (base 64), and only supports
# the character sets ISO-2022-JP and SHIFT_JIS (so the only two
# encoded word sequences recognized are <tt>=?ISO-2022-JP?B?...=</tt> and
# <tt>=?SHIFT_JIS?B?...=</tt>). Recognition of these sequences is case
str.gsub!(/=\?ISO-2022-JP\?B\?([!->@-~]+)\?=/i) {
str.gsub!(/=\?SHIFT_JIS\?B\?([!->@-~]+)\?=/i) {
# Returns the Base64-encoded version of +str+.
# Base64.b64encode("Now is the time for all good coders\nto learn Ruby")
# Tm93IGlzIHRoZSB0aW1lIGZvciBhbGwgZ29vZCBjb2RlcnMKdG8gbGVhcm4g
# _Prints_ the Base64 encoded version of +bin+ (a +String+) in lines of
# +len+ (default 60) characters.
# data = "Now is the time for all good coders\nto learn Ruby"
# Tm93IGlzIHRoZSB0aW1lIGZvciBhbGwgZ29vZCBjb2RlcnMKdG8gbGVhcm4g
def b64encode(bin, len = 60)
encode64(bin).scan(/.{1,#{len}}/) do
module Deprecated # :nodoc:
for m in Base64.private_instance_methods(false)
warn("\#{caller(1)[0]}: #{m} is deprecated; use Base64.#{m} instead")
include Base64::Deprecated