---
title: "Beware of base64 encoded strings"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/beware-of-base64-encoded-strings-tf4ynjweq
source_url: https://garrit.xyz/posts/2024-04-15-beware-of-base64-encoded-strings
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-04-15T12:17:15.863Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z
tags: ["authentication", "curl"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 6
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Beware of base64 encoded strings

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 6 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A bug related to base64 encoded strings in a cronjob using wget to call an endpoint is fixed by specifying a flag to force the output of base64 on the same line.

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Tags: [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication), [#curl](https://daily.dev/tags/curl)

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