/* base64.hpp - base64 encoder/decoder implementing section 6.8 of RFC2045 Copyright (C) 2002 Ryan Petrie (ryanpetrie@netscape.net) and released under the zlib license: This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions: 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software. 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- base64::encoder and base64::decoder are intended to be identical in usage as the STL's std::copy and similar algorithms. They require as parameters an input iterator range and an output iterator, and just as std::copy, the iterators can be bare pointers, container iterators, or even adaptors such as ostream_iterator. Examples: // encode/decode with in-place memory buffers char source[size], dest[size*2]; base64::encode(source, source+size, dest); base64::decode(dest, dest+size*2, source); // encode from memory to a file char source[size]; ofstream file("output.txt"); base64::encode((char*)source, source+size, ostream_iterator(file)); // decode from file to a standard container ifstream file("input.txt"); vector dest; base64::decode(istream_iterator(file), istream_iterator(), back_inserter(dest) ); */ #ifndef _BASE64_HPP #define _BASE64_HPP #include namespace base64 { typedef unsigned uint32; typedef unsigned char uint8; extern const char* to_table; extern const char* to_table_end; extern const signed char* from_table; template void encode(const InputIterator& begin, const InputIterator& end, OutputIterator out, bool wrap) { InputIterator it = begin; int lineSize = 0; int bytes; do { uint32 input = 0; // get the next three bytes into "in" (and count how many we actually get) bytes = 0; for(; (bytes < 3) && (it != end); ++bytes, ++it) { input <<= 8; input += static_cast(*it); } // convert to base64 int bits = bytes*8; while (bits > 0) { bits -= 6; const uint8 index = ((bits < 0) ? input << -bits : input >> bits) & 0x3F; *out = to_table[index]; ++out; ++lineSize; } if (lineSize >= 76 && wrap) // ensure proper line length { *out = 13; ++out; *out = 10; ++out; lineSize = 0; } } while (bytes == 3); // add pad characters if necessary if (bytes > 0) for(int i=bytes; i < 3; ++i) { *out = '='; ++out; } } template void decode(const InputIterator& begin, const InputIterator& end, OutputIterator out) { InputIterator it = begin; int chars; do { uint8 input[4] = {0, 0, 0, 0}; // get four characters chars=0; while((chars<4) && (it != end)) { uint8 c = static_cast(*it); if (c == '=') break; // pad character marks the end of the stream ++it; if (std::find(to_table, to_table_end, c) != to_table_end) { input[chars] = from_table[c]; chars++; } } // output the binary data if (chars >= 2) { *out = static_cast((input[0] << 2) + (input[1] >> 4)); ++out; if (chars >= 3) { *out = static_cast((input[1] << 4) + (input[2] >> 2)); ++out; if (chars >= 4) { *out = static_cast((input[2] << 6) + input[3]); ++out; } } } } while (chars == 4); } } // end namespace #endif