Comments on: AS3 htmlDecode htmlEncode xml hack

By: Woinse

Woinse — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:31:44 +0000

Good article, I hope this is use for us thanks.

By: Ümit

Ümit — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:26:03 +0000

hello Arie, can you sen me the AS code please.

By: Arie

Arie — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:29:09 +0000

Thanks,

Converted the mentioned js method into AS and placed the code in a Util class.
Works very well.

By: markledford

markledford — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:35:24 +0000

Thats cool Aran, unfortunately it doesn’t work with my use case where I need to explicitly decode html encoded characters that have been sent to me via external RSS feeds.

By: Aran

Aran — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:26:01 +0000

You could use this class:
http://dynamicflash.com/goodies/base64/

A comment from someone else using the class which seems to be similar to your use-case:

“Oh I also wanted to tell you how much I was able to trim by combining compress and Base64 encode. Note: I am working on an LMS called CourseMill that URLEncodes everything, turned out to be in my favor.

Originally, I was just passing an XMLString, which was roughly 65000 characters long after it was URLEncoded. Then I tried compress(), which reduced it to a very small amount of characters, probably under 1000. But when I stored the compress var onto the LMS it was URLEncoded and shot up to around 33000 characters. The shining star here is the Base64 encoding which is 99.9% safe from URL Encoding. So after compressing AND encoding with Base64, my var was reduced to a 13000!!!

VERY COOL!!!”