Weird: Very confusing Base64 problem (includes quiz)
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Do you see what is wrong with the Base64 encoded data (below)?* *Find answer at bottom of this entry. Also, don't try decoding the data because it is non-sense because it is base64 of encrypted data. Had a problem where my Base64 data (all of a sudden) was being corrupted. However, it is very subtle (see ANSWER at bottom). HINT: Just one char was being corrupted. Data Only Corrupted After Posting I couldn't understand this. The data (before I posted it was completely fine). Only after posting data did it get corrupted (and it's not a URL-encoding thing). Actually, that is incorrect. The data is posted to the web site & saved in DB with no corruption. Only after the data is returned as a part of a JSON object is the base64 data corrupted. CRazy!! :confused: I Finally Found This Argument At Github - Spoiler ALERT!! + sign is changing into \u002B using JsonSerializer.Serialize · Issue #35281 · dotnet/runtime · GitHub[^] This is a very WEIRD (and obscure) thing. I can't believe I finally figured this out. Now, I will have to implement a fix. Discovering the problem was extremely difficult because the base64 data is upwards of 40K. Have any of you seen this?
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Do you see what is wrong with the Base64 encoded data (below)?* *Find answer at bottom of this entry. Also, don't try decoding the data because it is non-sense because it is base64 of encrypted data. Had a problem where my Base64 data (all of a sudden) was being corrupted. However, it is very subtle (see ANSWER at bottom). HINT: Just one char was being corrupted. Data Only Corrupted After Posting I couldn't understand this. The data (before I posted it was completely fine). Only after posting data did it get corrupted (and it's not a URL-encoding thing). Actually, that is incorrect. The data is posted to the web site & saved in DB with no corruption. Only after the data is returned as a part of a JSON object is the base64 data corrupted. CRazy!! :confused: I Finally Found This Argument At Github - Spoiler ALERT!! + sign is changing into \u002B using JsonSerializer.Serialize · Issue #35281 · dotnet/runtime · GitHub[^] This is a very WEIRD (and obscure) thing. I can't believe I finally figured this out. Now, I will have to implement a fix. Discovering the problem was extremely difficult because the base64 data is upwards of 40K. Have any of you seen this?
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Roger, I'm sure that you've figured this out by now. That escaping behavior is actually in the JSON specification. RFC 8259 - Section 7[^]
Yeah, it seems like it is a normal thing. It seems that it was just altering a test I had (that didn't parse it as json) that used the base64 encoded data and that is where I was seeing the issue. It's part of a larger challenge so it looks like it was a false-positive for me. Thanks
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Do you see what is wrong with the Base64 encoded data (below)?* *Find answer at bottom of this entry. Also, don't try decoding the data because it is non-sense because it is base64 of encrypted data. Had a problem where my Base64 data (all of a sudden) was being corrupted. However, it is very subtle (see ANSWER at bottom). HINT: Just one char was being corrupted. Data Only Corrupted After Posting I couldn't understand this. The data (before I posted it was completely fine). Only after posting data did it get corrupted (and it's not a URL-encoding thing). Actually, that is incorrect. The data is posted to the web site & saved in DB with no corruption. Only after the data is returned as a part of a JSON object is the base64 data corrupted. CRazy!! :confused: I Finally Found This Argument At Github - Spoiler ALERT!! + sign is changing into \u002B using JsonSerializer.Serialize · Issue #35281 · dotnet/runtime · GitHub[^] This is a very WEIRD (and obscure) thing. I can't believe I finally figured this out. Now, I will have to implement a fix. Discovering the problem was extremely difficult because the base64 data is upwards of 40K. Have any of you seen this?
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Gads, I remember dealing with a similar issue. Turned out the issue was that the front-end wasn't using
encodeURIComponent
in the utility app for setting password.
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Do you see what is wrong with the Base64 encoded data (below)?* *Find answer at bottom of this entry. Also, don't try decoding the data because it is non-sense because it is base64 of encrypted data. Had a problem where my Base64 data (all of a sudden) was being corrupted. However, it is very subtle (see ANSWER at bottom). HINT: Just one char was being corrupted. Data Only Corrupted After Posting I couldn't understand this. The data (before I posted it was completely fine). Only after posting data did it get corrupted (and it's not a URL-encoding thing). Actually, that is incorrect. The data is posted to the web site & saved in DB with no corruption. Only after the data is returned as a part of a JSON object is the base64 data corrupted. CRazy!! :confused: I Finally Found This Argument At Github - Spoiler ALERT!! + sign is changing into \u002B using JsonSerializer.Serialize · Issue #35281 · dotnet/runtime · GitHub[^] This is a very WEIRD (and obscure) thing. I can't believe I finally figured this out. Now, I will have to implement a fix. Discovering the problem was extremely difficult because the base64 data is upwards of 40K. Have any of you seen this?
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Think that's because Json had a quarrel with the Argonauts some time ago :-\
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Think that's because Json had a quarrel with the Argonauts some time ago :-\
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Ah, learned something new, should have known that being Dutch:
Quote:
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much
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