Questions about Base64 encoding
问题 I have 3 questions about base64: 1) The base64 encoding purpose is binary-to-text. Isn't text going to be sent through web as binary? Then what is good for? 2) In past they used 7-bit communication systems, now it's 8-bit. Then why we still using it now? 3) How it increases the size? I just take 3-bytes with 28-bit and rearrange them to 4-bytes of 6-bit but in total they still 28-bit? 回答1: 1) The purpose is not only binary to text encoding, but also to encode text which uses specific