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It's called "urlsafe base64", or some variant, in the languages I work in.
> This encoding may be referred to as "base64url".
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4648#section-5
But yeah, it's not base64 followed by a urlencode. It's "just" base64-with-a-different-alphabet.
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It's called "urlsafe base64", or some variant, in the languages I work in.
> This encoding may be referred to as "base64url".
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4648#section-5
But yeah, it's not base64 followed by a urlencode. It's "just" base64-with-a-different-alphabet.