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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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GeneralTECO Macros - show me the codez Pin
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GeneralWeird: Very confusing Base64 problem (includes quiz) Pin
raddevus21-Jul-22 11:12
mvaraddevus21-Jul-22 11:12 
Do you see what is wrong with the Base64 encoded data (below)?*

*Find answer at bottom of this entry.

Also, don't try decoding the data because it is non-sense because it is base64 of encrypted data.

Had a problem where my Base64 data (all of a sudden) was being corrupted.
However, it is very subtle (see ANSWER at bottom). HINT: Just one char was being corrupted.

Data Only Corrupted After Posting
I couldn't understand this. The data (before I posted it was completely fine).
Only after posting data did it get corrupted (and it's not a URL-encoding thing).

Actually, that is incorrect. The data is posted to the web site & saved in DB with no corruption.
Only after the data is returned as a part of a JSON object is the base64 data corrupted. CRazy!! Confused | :confused:

I Finally Found This Argument At Github - Spoiler ALERT!!
+ sign is changing into \u002B using JsonSerializer.Serialize · Issue #35281 · dotnet/runtime · GitHub[^]

This is a very WEIRD (and obscure) thing. I can't believe I finally figured this out. Now, I will have to implement a fix. Discovering the problem was extremely difficult because the base64 data is upwards of 40K.

Have any of you seen this?

jHx4uha8sCRyiqv8nRVJpRoQPx45ghciXg6PJb8qrxORwmMTN6cLlDIh4PVZenZvh3saEtlGAxZlI2Wm\u002BumDIiIs/r9vU5XgnMMF\u002Bk5TnvzNSLvYaTY41mS4FNZ8yshdVFn\u002Bq2UolJzz8ldlycDW1a7JfWKS88XNaBVgbZYjrSquDjCHOwIY8yGzxHnv70BDHEgHz6IUtZ7gEzKQ/dlVabYe7D2/QfU0Mtobx/LVkxa/oiujTaoiCLIQdkmALGbQqj/rtdLlOzKWjqLMpa/EhwGTA5unrEJMR\u002BDgKIJ5kxwoffKwVeydXlz1GY9WcyJrFf1xJr2CmKhUsbbXQQ0Qcgi80FJcupEQr\u002Bd4jclGeVbyFla40Ncm7ZjDeRVQ5coP2n1VyHTosWpvk7WqDIv1URbD8Xx3qfrXr2LsbS\u002Bzhe67bXNv4wekJfkvfxY8dh4Qjz9ZW0PBwIgW6KdtmCEKsURRWl5m8OvLxkL8iWuXwG\u002BdQeTSJb0Ew/AohuSpuiSeV5REkEagMoGnHdV6sLGo8kselY4sh1SqtIdoRq5E6nO60V7kzcCfm4MgdmwWEuRRxtJeeEl59dDvvOOOefbYCHLWGONVQ4/hpLPxnU2beyPoz7j9oWz2hIMgjTlQgzupzIZzjdzu7O62PDRorm8rVnZAmLFnNbAmFCzpgLsB1HZrTL5/MXeEdUz2WuKjJPAi4q\u002BnPddo0xm6bkvKXoGWJbwFAoxaWD7hffcvuurAkIqPH2S8CgP3cmnLiM6Qg65k7Sy51T81ab92g92rBJ\u002B8BFVPCDVdGsy6BblFP2/KQ6\u002BoCllRD\u002BIqNqIfdfzmJUp2WEEpviwP\u002B9IhGuGC2flCrMclKaAmTuZLyijgQkC2\u002BEb7hU5GoA8h5ic3hOFSOhmUo20/LIiIIj3jUanfxJLLW6MTY3c5WNJlNUz0ucwGRUNqO2VMxsPnWp05M3aGU4kxYIracZwmvqeQKgGX59vhPo5GhmFxZroVkSO7\u002BEOWRG/J1et/5dFslN3dZDLFSIBvrA5pJF7BuEZPsbcWTOWxnrWZl\u002BeGouVoC8KfEfsCgZkbBKB1bR2ark7vZl6aEP1OrjuNonHGODutBaogq6V39T/4w86gz2Ow3qDfbGJh2nqJbE2JTNUbN/UbsEmKfdz7JC2jDjTZ7M3Cl0LXsLZM67\u002BFYZxvBzyKUsjXV3S1eHqLrk/i98yWs9YbSEHurIb7wggOac3MlzLz\u002BYCye2UAQxVE6vt66cv3wXBXLLlfwy3rBNVqSLv60//io\u002BKEnKxF0rIYhb6Sm8TV7ErdDwSBe0sspIcbkfdR4ylVoXbR1PaoqCS0KISqNWXR9x4lz8jnhTKtKLZvphKsVE9GIpGAJrcdmfjoWIMXkmP1TMfiQ/xWl3v/s6FNnbXbSjx3L10\u002BSQ8Ha2ZbDuZNVyDYc8vaCQY6Wr4MywCnqaTbQcJ3DvLJKbmysUMpHd7h1U\u002B4k64cFJ2ltWoBr/btUKH1T/lNV8xtIHo7WISECX0K85WeTxCHR36GUzo9WopffO2hpzAm8bEzKJLug5Qm5D0ej491ep28sSW2cx0Ntq7gdyEITYWRP79qIlvLc/w0wLcHEbRPJd\u002Bwx5QKpOA1oaWEqkpgVJDw00D0pqjM35an/xJdEu78wbM0grn3Ns74SeqjRvft4wvVjZ/








ANSWER
If you guessed that the \u002B should actually be a + character, you are amazing!!
GeneralRe: Weird: Very confusing Base64 problem (includes quiz) Pin
Randor 21-Jul-22 21:40
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RantGetAssemblyVersion, VB style Pin
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