Re: Applescript URL protocol (Was applescript & HTML)
Re: Applescript URL protocol (Was applescript & HTML)
- Subject: Re: Applescript URL protocol (Was applescript & HTML)
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 02:23:24 -0800
At 10:54a +0100 03/26/2004, Brennan didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:
Back to the point; I was recently looking at using 'do shell script' to
call the built in UNIX base64 encoder (part of the OpenSSL command).
It works well, but AFAICT relies on the input being a file. :(
openssl base64 -in file.bin -out file.b64
Of course we can write the string temporarily to (path to "flnt") but that
seems kind of overkill.
Can anyone fathom the man pages ('man enc') to the point where they can
pass a string (with high byte chars, or perhaps unicode) directly to this
command for encoding as 7bit text?
Is there another shell command for doing this?
Well, you know, Base64 encoding/decoding is not all that difficult. I
wrote some encoding/decoding routines in ProTERM's DIRC language, and
it would be pretty easy to port to Perl. Of course there are already
Base64 modules for Perl. There might even be some osax command, or it
could be done in vanilla AppleScript.
Uhh... what was the question again? :)
-boo
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