Added a base64 library for various reasons.

modules/library/base64.lua

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+-- Lua 5.1+ base64 v3.0 (c) 2009 by Alex Kloss <alexthkloss@web.de>
+-- Slightly modified by Izaya/XeonSquared
+-- licensed under the terms of the LGPL2
+do
+-- character table string
+local b='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/'
+
+-- encoding
+function b64(data)
+    data=tostring(data)
+    return ((data:gsub('.', function(x) 
+        local r,b='',x:byte()
+        for i=8,1,-1 do r=r..(b%2^i-b%2^(i-1)>0 and '1' or '0') end
+        return r;
+    end)..'0000'):gsub('%d%d%d?%d?%d?%d?', function(x)
+        if (#x < 6) then return '' end
+        local c=0
+        for i=1,6 do c=c+(x:sub(i,i)=='1' and 2^(6-i) or 0) end
+        return b:sub(c+1,c+1)
+    end)..({ '', '==', '=' })[#data%3+1])
+end
+
+-- decoding
+function ub64(data)
+    data=tostring(data)
+    data = string.gsub(data, '[^'..b..'=]', '')
+    return (data:gsub('.', function(x)
+        if (x == '=') then return '' end
+        local r,f='',(b:find(x)-1)
+        for i=6,1,-1 do r=r..(f%2^i-f%2^(i-1)>0 and '1' or '0') end
+        return r;
+    end):gsub('%d%d%d?%d?%d?%d?%d?%d?', function(x)
+        if (#x ~= 8) then return '' end
+        local c=0
+        for i=1,8 do c=c+(x:sub(i,i)=='1' and 2^(8-i) or 0) end
+        return string.char(c)
+    end))
+end
+end