[OT] We're hiring

Mike Bonner bonnmike at gmail.com
Sun Sep 16 11:44:26 EDT 2012


oops. Shouldn't have posted the address my apologies, wasn't thinking.

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interestingly, the base64encode function of livecode does add the padding
> to the correct length.
>
> put the base64encode of "support at economy-x-talk.com"
>
> c3VwcG9ydEBlY29ub215LXgtdGFsay5jb20=
>
> Apparently the decode function pads the data to the correct length before
> decoding so it works with or without the trailing =.
>
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:42 AM, -=>JB<=- <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:
>
>> The site below returns it properly with .com at the end
>> of the line.
>>
>> http://www.base64decode.org/
>>
>> -=>JB<=-
>>
>>
>> On Sep 16, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Colin Holgate wrote:
>>
>> > You are right about that, but there is very little in your job
>> application that is to do with LiveCode, and many applicants will use more
>> regular decoding tools. It could be a bug, or hack, in LiveCOde that allows
>> it to work ok.
>> >
>> > Try this page with your existing code:
>> >
>> > http://opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/base64decode/
>> >
>> > or try TextMate. That page shows an error, TextMate converts it ok
>> without that last two characters.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sep 16, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Mark Schonewille <
>> m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Perhaps RunRev changed something in the decoding algorithm in the last
>> version of LiveCode? In all the version of Revolution and LiveCode that I
>> have, it doesn't matter whether you add = or == or even === or nothing.
>> >
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