Encoding and decoding arbitrary strings into strings that are safe to put into a URL query param.
Project description
Query string safe Base64
Encoding and decoding arbitrary strings into strings that are safe to put into a URL query param.
The problem
urlsafe_b64encode and urlsafe_b64decode from base64 are not enough because they leave = used for padding chars unquoted:
import base64
base64.urlsafe_b64encode('a')
'YQ=='
And there are 2 problems with that
= sign gets quoted:
import urllib
urllib.quote('=')
'%3D'
Some libraries tolerate the = in query string values:
from urlparse import urlsplit, parse_qs
parse_qs(urlsplit('http://aaa.com/asa?q=AAAA=BBBB=CCCC').query)
{'q': ['AAAA=BBBB=CCCC']}
but the RFC 3986 underspecifies the query string so we cannot rely on = chars being handled by all web applications as it is done by urlparse.
Therefore we consider chars: [‘+’, ‘/’, ‘=’] unsafe and we replace them with [‘-’, ‘_’, ‘.’]. Characters + and / are already handled by urlsafe_* functions from base64 so only = is left. Since the = is used exclusively for padding, we simply remove it, and re-attach the padding during decoding. Because of that, querystringsafe_base64 is able to decode padded and unpadded string.
The solution
import querystringsafe_base64
querystringsafe_base64.encode(b'foo-bar')
b'Zm9vLWJhcg'
querystringsafe_base64.decode(b'Zm9vLWJhcg..')
b'foo-bar'
querystringsafe_base64.decode(b'Zm9vLWJhcg')
b'foo-bar'
CHANGELOG
1.2.0
Remove padding characters from encoded string.
1.1.1
Fixed packaging
1.1.0
Always expect bytes
Add type annotations
1.0.0
support for restore missing padding during decode process
0.2.0
Support for python3
0.1.5
Move querystringsafe_base64 module to the root
Use install instead of develop during tests
0.1.4
Remove bdist_wheel from distributons
0.1.3
Install pandoc (travis)
0.1.2
Add setup.cfg and pypandoc to tests
0.1.1
add MANIFEST.in file
0.1.0
package structure
tests
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