Base64是网络上最常见的用于传输8Bit字节代码的编码方式之一，大家可以查看RFC2045～RFC2049，上面有MIME的详细规范。 Base64要求把每三个8Bit的字节转换为四个6Bit的字节（3*8 = 4*6 = 24），然后把6Bit再添两位高位0，组成四个8Bit的字节，也就是说，转换后的字符串理论上将要比原来的长1/3

php 的函数：base64_encode() 和 base64_decode()

base64的编,解码原理

Base64 编码其实是将3个8位字节转换为4个6位字节,( 3*8 = 4*6 = 24 ) 这4个六位字节 其实仍然是8位,只不过高两位被设置为0. 当一个字节只有6位有效时,它的取值空间为0 到 2的6次方减1 即63,也就是说被转换的Base64编码的每一个编码的取值空间为(0~63) 。

事实上，0~63之间的ASCII码有许多不可见字符，所以应该再做一个映射，映射表为

'A' ~ 'Z' ? ASCII（0 ~ 25）

'a' ~ 'z' ? ASCII（26 ~ 51）

'0' ~ '9' ? ASCII（52 ~ 61）

' ' ? ASCII（62）

'/' ? ASCII（63）

这样就可以将3个8位字节，转换为4个可见字符。

具体的字节拆分方法为：(图（画得不好，领会精神 :-))

aaaaaabb ccccdddd eeffffff //abcdef其实就是1或0，为了看的清楚就用abcdef代替

~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~

字节 1 字节 2 字节 3

||

/

00aaaaaa 00bbcccc 00ddddee 00ffffff

注：上面的三个字节位原文，下面四个字节为Base64编码，其前两位均为0。

这样拆分的时候，原文的字节数量应该是3的倍数，当这个条件不能满足时，用全零字节

补足，转化时Base64编码用=号代替，这就是为什么有些Base64编码以一个或两个等号结

束的原因，但等号最多有两个，因为：如果F(origin)代表原文的字节数，F(remain)代

表余数，则

F(remain) = F(origin) MOD 3 成立。

所以F(remain)的可能取值为0,1,2.

如果设 n = [F(origin) – F(remain)] / 3

当F(remain) = 0 时，恰好转换为4*n个字节的Base64编码。

当F(remain) = 1 时，由于一个原文字节可以拆分为属于两个Base64编码的字节，为了

让Base64编码是4的倍数，所以应该为补2个等号。

当F(remain) = 2 时，由于两个原文字节可以拆分为属于3个Base64编码的字节，同理，

应该补上一个等号。

base64 编码后的字符串末尾会有0到2个等号，这些等号在解码是并不必要，所以可以删除。

在网络GET 和 POST参数列表的时候，‘+'不能正常传输，可以把它替换成‘|'

这样经过base64编码后的字符串就只有‘|'和‘/‘，所以经过这样处理base64编码的字符串可以作为参数列表的以个参数值来传输

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以下是老外写的一个实现：

package com.meterware.httpunit;

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*

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/**

* A utility class to convert to and from base 64 encoding.

*

* @author <a href= "mailto:russgold@httpunit.org "> Russell Gold </a>

**/

public class Base64 { final static String encodingChar = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/ "; /** * Returns the base 64 encoded equivalent of a supplied string. * @param source the string to encode */ public static String encode( String source ) { char[] sourceBytes = getPaddedBytes( source ); int numGroups = (sourceBytes.length + 2) / 3; char[] targetBytes = new char[4]; char[] target = new char[ 4 * numGroups ]; for (int group = 0; group < numGroups; group++) { convert3To4( sourceBytes, group*3, targetBytes ); for (int i = 0; i < targetBytes.length; i++) { target[ i + 4*group ] = encodingChar.charAt( targetBytes[i] ); } } int numPadBytes = sourceBytes.length - source.length(); for (int i = target.length-numPadBytes; i < target.length; i++) target[i] = '= '; return new String( target ); } private static char[] getPaddedBytes( String source ) { char[] converted = source.toCharArray(); int requiredLength = 3 * ((converted.length+2) /3); char[] result = new char[ requiredLength ]; System.arraycopy( converted, 0, result, 0, converted.length ); return result; } private static void convert3To4( char[] source, int sourceIndex, char[] target ) { target[0] = (char) ( source[ sourceIndex ] > > > 2); target[1] = (char) (((source[ sourceIndex ] & 0x03) < < 4) | (source[ sourceIndex+1 ] > > > 4)); target[2] = (char) (((source[ sourceIndex+1 ] & 0x0f) < < 2) | (source[ sourceIndex+2 ] > > > 6)); target[3] = (char) ( source[ sourceIndex+2 ] & 0x3f); } /** * Returns the plaintext equivalent of a base 64-encoded string. * @param source a base 64 string (which must have a multiple of 4 characters) */ public static String decode( String source ) { if (source.length()%4 != 0) throw new RuntimeException( "valid Base64 codes have a multiple of 4 characters " ); int numGroups = source.length() / 4; int numExtraBytes = source.endsWith( "== " ) ? 2 : (source.endsWith( "= " ) ? 1 : 0); byte[] targetBytes = new byte[ 3*numGroups ]; byte[] sourceBytes = new byte[4]; for (int group = 0; group < numGroups; group++) { for (int i = 0; i < sourceBytes.length; i++) { sourceBytes[i] = (byte) Math.max( 0, encodingChar.indexOf( source.charAt( 4*group+i ) ) ); } convert4To3( sourceBytes, targetBytes, group*3 ); } return new String( targetBytes, 0, targetBytes.length - numExtraBytes ); } private static void convert4To3( byte[] source, byte[] target, int targetIndex ) { target[ targetIndex ] = (byte) (( source[0] < < 2) | (source[1] > > > 4)); target[ targetIndex+1 ] = (byte) (((source[1] & 0x0f) < < 4) | (source[2] > > > 2)); target[ targetIndex+2 ] = (byte) (((source[2] & 0x03) < < 6) | (source[3])); } }