URL safe base 64 encoding for Data::UUID

zerohero has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm using Data::UUID for (distributed) OID generation in an application. Sometimes OIDs will need to go into a URL as an argument. The current base-64 encoding scheme has several unsafe URL chars in it (e.g. "+/"). It would be nice to not have to urlencode the OIDs. Is there an alternate base-64 encoding module that works with Data::UUID to provide URL-safe OIDs?

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Re: URL safe base 64 encoding for Data::UUID by juster (Friar) on Feb 06, 2009 at 08:39 UTC
You could probably use MIME::Base64::URLSafe on the binary result from Data::UUID. But seeing how URLSafe is just a small wrapper around MIME::Base64 you could copy the code into your own project and have a wrapper around UUID's base64 method.	[reply]

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