How the Most Popular Encoding on Web Works? Base64 Explained

Timestamps
0:00 Video Starts
0:44 How Base64 Encoding Works?
3:47 Base64 Encoding Table
5:44 Problem with Base64 Encoding
7:40 Conclusion
7:51 Outro

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[pranavbhat]

Great content, one thing which you can also include about is the "=" based padding and how that works

[coderxchris]

Great video! I had no idea how it worked before this.

[heyrmi]

I used Base64 in Extent Reports after automation testing sites but never knew how they work internally.
Thank you.

[md.arifulislamsaikat]

Thank you for your real-life explanation.

[rutunjparikh]

I watched till the end. Awesome explaination.

[GedemPippin]

I watched this video till the end.

Mate thank you the way you explained this is very easy to grasp and as I am going to set to work learning binary coding this is an excellent video to get my head around the basics. Cheers

[soniyaprasad]

Enjoyed the video, The Background Music is really a good idea. Thankyou :)

[JasonJA]

Thought i already knew enough about base64 encoding but i watched till the end... not once have I ever thought about the size overhead thanks for the video 5 STARS.

[tarekghosn]

i love your videos man. any chance there is a book in the making about how someone would want to think in a full stack project?

[kaushalkumar]

Yes, i did learned something new today. I did not knew behind the scene what it does but i did knew it converts it into binary and then gives out some random string to us.

[chandra]

Thanks for this wonderful video. Could you also let us know, why do we encode this data in base64, why don't we send the data in raw binary format directly?

[hamiltonfungula]

If I find and encoded text with 4 equal signs at the end what's the meaning??

[yathink]

Bro can you explain about new framework sveltekit

[mrindiagaming]

I am getting job as base 64 developer is it good to do that I m confused plz reply if anyone knows?

[sourabhkulkarni]

Why is it 6 bit encoding instead of 8 bit encoding?