Classic ASP

Get Contents of File as Base64

Demonstrates how to read the contents of a file and convert to a base64 string.

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Classic ASP

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
success = 0

set bd = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.BinData")

success = bd.LoadFile("qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Failed to load file.") & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( bd.GetEncoded("base64")) & "</pre>"

' If you want mult-line base64:
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "--") & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( bd.GetEncoded("base64_mime")) & "</pre>"

' If you want hex..
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "--") & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( bd.GetEncoded("hex")) & "</pre>"

' etc.

%>
</body>
</html>