MIME::D...::Gzip64(3)

💖 NAME 💖

MIME::Decoder::Gzip64 — bestie, this thing decodes a "base64" gzip stream 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

It's a generic decoder object, okay? So it doesn't have its own lil usage block — go read MIME::Decoder for the actual how-to, iykyk 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so picture this: MIME::Decoder::Gzip64 is a subclass of MIME::Decoder::Base64, and it handles a nonstandard encoding where the data get gzipped first, and then that gzipped file gets base64-encoded. Like a lil glow-up pipeline 💅

The common non-standard MIME encoding for this whole situation:

x-gzip64

Now here's the tea 🍓: this class leans on external programs to do its thing, and those programs might not even exist on your machine. So MIME-tools does not install it by default. If you want it, you gotta say this in your main program:

install MIME::Decoder::Gzip64 'x-gzip64';

Heads up bestie: if this class is being a whole mess and not working for you, you may need to change the commands it runs. You can do that in your main program by setting up the two commands that handle the compression/decompression 🧚

use MIME::Decoder::Gzip64;

$MIME::Decoder::Gzip64::GZIP   = 'gzip -c';
$MIME::Decoder::Gzip64::GUNZIP = 'gzip -d -c';

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

MIME::Decoder — go give it a read, it's iconic fr fr ⭐

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Eryq (eryq@zeegee.com), ZeeGee Software Inc (http://www.zeegee.com).

All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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and that's the whole vibe, no cap — this was MIME::D...::Gzip64(3) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, perl v5.42.0, dated 2026-02-11 🌈 slay, go decode something 💖✨