http://simonwillison.net/2008-08-28T09:57:56+00:00Simon Willison2008-08-28T09:57:56+00:002008-08-28T09:57:56+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/28/fam/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://fi.am/entry/urlsafe-base64-encodingdecoding-in-two-lines/">URLsafe base64 encoding/decoding in two lines</a></strong></p> A much better solution than my base65 hack—if you understand how base64 padding works (I didn’t) you can use it to generate URL-safe compressed hashes. Performance should be significantly better than my version. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/base64">base64</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/base65">base65</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/urlsafe">urlsafe</a></p>