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1. #CHANGE HEADER USING BASE64 ENCODING FULL#
2. #CHANGE HEADER USING BASE64 ENCODING CODE#
3. #CHANGE HEADER USING BASE64 ENCODING FREE#

They look something like this (these are not real):Ĭonsumer Key (API Key) 8dme3utVQfOhlPk5BUG9XbFxRĬonsumer Secret (API Secret) QFZXoC7MP72JZtGMBNpjLGI4Vl1xr1q9dyPLp3u7jGtkESpbLm Twitter's api key and api secret key are already HTTP compatible characters. This question is similar to What is the purpose of base 64 encoding and why it used in HTTP Basic Authentication? but the voted answer doesn't fully answer my question.

What is the point of base64 encoding the string "apiKeyHere:apiSecretHere"? Why not just accept an Authorization header containing the raw api credentials? The header sent becomes: Authorization: 'Basic ' + base64 In Node, I use: var base64 = new Buffer(apiKey + ':' + apiSecret).toString('base64') What programming language to use to develop scripts for such of things? Sure, javascript to send “safe” data over the wire and you can use PHP to decode them, vice-versa.Īdditionally, you can find base64 encoding algorithms in javascript in Magento’s folder webroot/js/mage/adminhtml/hash.Twitter's API requires sending an Authorization header that is a base64 encoding of an API key concatenated with an API secret key.

You have bunch of “ online base64 decode/encode” scripts on web, just google them.

#CHANGE HEADER USING BASE64 ENCODING CODE#

So, what do I need to do to convert characters into base64 encoded schema? Just a little bit of math or you can use any trusted code which will do that for you. You are sure that all characters will be transferred over the wire with base64! In other words, you don’t need to worry about which character sets client’s browser can accept.

Also in administration part when you search in grid in some column some value you can see that Magento is using base64 to encode your filter(s). This is just one example where you can use base64.

#CHANGE HEADER USING BASE64 ENCODING FULL#

What do you think why doesn’t Magento use normal strings in URL instead of base64 which is around 33% longer? Hint: you’ll get this later in the article…Īs you can see we can’t put char “/” in URL if we want to send last visited URL as parameter because we would break attribute/value rule for “MOD rewrite” – GET parameter.Ī full example would be: “” – sure it’s wrong. In our case uenc = url encoded = aHR0cDovL2xvYy5tYWdlbnRvLmNvbS9hc2ljcy1tZW4tcy1nZWwta2F5YW5vLXhpaS5odG1s =. This is to ensure that the data remains intact without modification during transport”.

#CHANGE HEADER USING BASE64 ENCODING FREE#

If you don’t know what does it mean (encoded chars) and how they are generated – keep reading.Īdditionally, if you have any useful example where did you use base64 encode/decode, feel free to share your ideas with others.įrom wiki: “Base64 encoding schemes are commonly used when there is a need to encode binary data that needs be stored and transferred over media that are designed to deal with textual data. These chars “aHR0cDovL2xvYy5tYWdlbnRvLmNvbS9hc2ljcy1tZW4tcy1nZWwta2F5YW5vLXhpaS5odG1s” are base64 encoded strings and POST data you can see (HTTP header traffic) with Firebug, LiveHTTPHeaders (addon for FF), Charles proxy,… Magento will redirect you to something like this: “…93/” with some POST data (product=93&related_product=&super_attribute=37&qty=2). This basically means that all kind of characters (ASCII, UTF8, UTF16…) with control characters can be mapped for example in English alphabet a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and you would be able to read them all on screen, or even print them out.įirst of all, Magento is using base64 encode/decode each time you want to add product in your cart. What is base64 encoding/decoding and how we can benefit from this representationīase64 schemes represent binary data in an ASCII string format (English alphabet, common punctuation chars, control chars) by translating it into a base-64 representation.