character encoding - Base64 decoding of MIME email not working (GMail API)

Question

I'm using the GMail API to retrieve an email contents. I am getting the following base64 encoded data for the body: http://hastebin.com/ovucoranam.md

But when I run it through a base64 decoder, it either returns an empty string (error) or something that resembles the HTML data but with a bunch of weird characters.

Help?

Answer 1

I'm not sure if you've solved it yet, but GmailGuy is correct. You need to convert the body to the Base64 RFC 4648 standard. The jist is you'll need to replace - with + and _ with /.

I've taken your original input and did the replacement: http://hastebin.com/ukanavudaz

And used base64decode.org to decode it, and it was fine.