Source: libmime-base64-urlsafe-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Axel Beckert Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 4.1.3 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libmime-base64-urlsafe-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libmime-base64-urlsafe-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/MIME-Base64-URLSafe Package: libmime-base64-urlsafe-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Multi-Arch: foreign Description: Perl version of Python's URL-safe base64 codec MIME::Base64::URLSafe is a perl version of python's URL-safe base64 encoder / decoder. . When embedding binary data in URL, it is preferable to use base64 encoding. However, two characters ('+' and '/') used in the standard base64 encoding have special meanings in URLs, often leading to re-encoding with URL-encoding, or worse, interoperability problems. . To overcome the problem, the module provides a variation of base64 codec compatible with python's urlsafe_b64encode / urlsafe_b64decode