Forums General Discussion $encode() and $decode() are they needed?

Everyone missed the most *obvious* example of $encode.. to encode data using MIME/UUencode encoding.

Web/mail servers often require that certain headers or data is sent as base64 encoded data. base64 is just another name for MIME encoding.

When you send Basic Auth information to a webserver, you're doing so with base64. It looks like this:



Other parts of HTTP require base64 as well. This seems like reason enough to me.