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-rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/BIO_f_base64.pod | 19 |
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diff --git a/doc/man3/BIO_f_base64.pod b/doc/man3/BIO_f_base64.pod index 5097c2849b..b58a32592e 100644 --- a/doc/man3/BIO_f_base64.pod +++ b/doc/man3/BIO_f_base64.pod @@ -21,13 +21,26 @@ any data read through it. Base64 BIOs do not support BIO_gets() or BIO_puts(). +For writing, output is by default divided to lines of length 64 +characters and there is always a newline at the end of output. + +For reading, first line should be at most 1024 +characters long. If it is longer then it is ignored completely. +Other input lines can be of any length. There must be a newline +at the end of input. + +This behavior can be changed with BIO_FLAGS_BASE64_NO_NL flag. + BIO_flush() on a base64 BIO that is being written through is used to signal that no more data is to be encoded: this is used to flush the final block through the BIO. -The flag BIO_FLAGS_BASE64_NO_NL can be set with BIO_set_flags() -to encode the data all on one line or expect the data to be all -on one line. +The flag BIO_FLAGS_BASE64_NO_NL can be set with BIO_set_flags(). +For writing, it causes all data to be written on one line without +newline at the end. +For reading, it forces the decoder to process the data regardless +of newlines. All newlines are ignored and the input does not need +to contain any newline at all. =head1 NOTES |