by gizmore on 1/16/23, 8:00 PM with 2 comments
Because there is a special padding character '='
by bob1029 on 1/16/23, 8:05 PM
The padding character is not required for the underlying encoding scheme to function in isolation. It becomes more useful when you have a stream of multiple, un-delimited base64 values that need to be processed.
by pestatije on 1/16/23, 8:32 PM
'=' is not part of the payload. It belongs to the carrier protocol to signal end of payload.