Mime::Base64 Problem

[LucL]

Hi Guys,

I'm having a problem converting large binary e-mail attachments from base64 to Perl string format.

I'm using MIME::Base64. The attachment is formatted properly and perfectly. All rows have the proper amount of characters and padding if necessary. The e-mails were sent from outlook, hotmail, yahoo.

Here is the problem. With small binary attachments, < 1 meg there are no problems.

With larger attachments > 1 meg, I always get a "Premature end of base64 data" and while the conversion completes, the converted file is a few hundred bytes smaller than the original file and always corrupted.

I've searched all over and can't find whether or not this is a bug with MIME::Base64. I'm using the latest version. The MIME::Base64 readme says this is just a warning, but the files are corrupted so there must be another problem.

Once again, this only happens with binary (video) files over 1 meg, smaller ones seems to work fine.

If necessary, I can upload the e-mail source along with attachment but they're about 2 megs.

Thanks,
Luc L.

 

[Deleted]

Taken from the MIME::Base64 docs.

"The number of characters to decode is not a multiple of 4. Legal base64 data should be padded with one or two "=" characters to make its length a multiple of 4. The decoded result will be the same whether the padding is present or not."

http://unixjunky.com

 

[LucL]

Thanks UnixJunky but unfortunately the data length is a multiple of 4 and no padding is required.

 

[KevinADC]

could be the script is timing out? How long deos it seem to take to convert a file around 1 meg?

 

[LucL]

It's nearly instant. I didn't time it but as soon as I run the script the error pops up <1 second later. I'm running from root just to be on the safe side.

The conversion completes but the file is corrupted.