httplib_base64_encode.md

LibHTTP API Reference

httplib_base64_encode( src, src_len, dst, dst_len );

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
src	const unsigned char *	Pointer to binary data to be BASE64 encoded
src_len	int	The number of bytes of the binary data to encode
dst	char *	Destination buffer for the encoding string
dst_len	int	Length of the destination buffer

Return Value

Type	Description
int	The size of the destination string or an error

Description

The function httplib_base64_encode() encodes a block of binary data to a BASE64 encoded NUL terminated string. The destination buffer should be large enough to contain the whole string and NUL terminating character. If the function succeeds the actual number of used bytes in the destination buffer is returned. An error is indicated with the return value -1.

See Also

• httplib_url_decode();
• httplib_url_encode();