base64: allow zero length argument to base64_encode#18617
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We used to treat 0 as "call strlen() to get the length" for curlx_base64_encode, but it turns out this is rather fragile as we easily do the mistake of passing in zero when the data is actually not there and then calling strlen() is wrong. Force the caller to pass in the correct size. A zero length input string now returns a zero length output and a NULL pointer. Closes #18617
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We used to treat 0 as "call strlen() to get the length" for curlx_base64_encode, but it turns out this is rather fragile as we easily do the mistake of passing in zero when the data is actually not there and then calling strlen() is wrong. Force the caller to pass in the correct size. A zero length input string now returns a zero length output and a NULL pointer. Closes #18617
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We used to treat 0 as "call strlen() to get the length" for curlx_base64_encode, but it turns out this is rather fragile as we easily do the mistake of passing in zero when the data is actually not there and then calling strlen() is wrong.
Force the caller to pass in the correct size. Encoding a zero length string now returns a zero length output and a NULL pointer.