[Perlwebmail-devel] UIDL encoding

woodwardj@jaos.org woodwardj@jaos.org
Wed, 03 Jul 2002 19:37:02 -0400


>>encode_base64 is in MIME::Base64 is "standard", at least in perl 
>>5.6.0. Only '+' seems to need secial attention.

>I agree with your point.  I have been using CGI::EncryptForm for another project and found it
>interesting enough that I wanted to try it out with webmail.pl.  This gives the added bonus of
>securing those get requests (somewhat).
>
>MIME::Base64 might be a better fit. I will update the current cvs code to encode the get urls
>with MIME::Base64 as opposed to CGI::EncryptForm.

Current cvs should base64 encode all uidl's now.  I left in EncryptForm to get more testing and
feedback.   I really like what it offers and its trivial to take out if someone objects =]

take care,
jason