How to base64 encode an image from the facebook api

Question

I am attempting to convert an image url provided by the facebook api into base64 format with cURL.

the api provides a url as such:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-         


        

Answer 1

Maybe this won't help much but it seems that the original picture (ending with _o) does not need gda nor oe oh parameters

to get the original profile picture you can do:

var username_or_id = "name.lastname" //Example
get_url ("http://graph.facebook.com/$username_or_id/picture?width=9999")

hth