Re: [netconf] base64encodedvalue== is an invalid base64 value

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 29 January 2021 22:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netconf] base64encodedvalue== is an invalid base64 value
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On 29. Jan 2021, at 20:11, Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> 
> Who cares whether this value roundtrips in an examples??

I’d expect at least some decent implementations will check for RFC 4648’s mandate "These pad bits MUST be set to
   zero by conforming encoders”, just like some check for the right number of equals signs.
Examples that fail in decent implementations are suboptimal.
(They might even be used in arguments to claim that this decency needs to be removed.)

Grüße, Carsten