Online decoder for Face headers

This is a — very simple — online decoder for Face headers. These are supported by (amongst others) Gnus/Emacs and MesNews.

I am grateful to s|b for encouraging me to do something remotely useful, and to Jeff Dairiki for the example of his excellent X-Face converter.

Example Face

Just copy and paste these lines to get an idea of what a Face may look like.

Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBA
MAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEX9/ftIS5IsNImXjKgcI3
Dh29sdnA7JAAAB60lEQVR4nI2US5ajMAxFXeF4Ht
lhXlZ7AdCCBWCcORTx/rfSkgyEyqg14uiipw8Spn
zaRmrm/8yWD0dZqn80G5WlUOVEnsCPNKp6D2w98J
sWHcJuiOiCPnXGNPDIU/U7BuKPGe7GfAW/rNPhl+
A4bqkC6IZDiwOwXb0CnKBtpjMJhgZoB96bXl5Gtf
tfr+AHJ4LlhRm8VOvmJlCvwM3Ud41f9maX1dOADG
4cQe1lDD3RAzVH+DXMhhUTfjOIkWexvAHRkCSiyZ
muYBWlGpGfV0CihDyrW8yhbOYDaFU5d+8AU8YXqt
QNEz5P92KskWFq54h/ONWs4OtpbDoiGCzmNatc05
rmBE6AtQpKsdsOfoLDUBgci6JAqgqI8bI2F+Awjl
eAew6OwFYSWA8CVgFdrQqfCnIW8MKAdexscwWTbO
ML8Q0myV4y82187FIKomwvf5bO0ph+gZFbZCD7q2
DZAc7nyQxv4FSLTcHjkLo5KS/Ox41lPHIExyEZRb
4lP5zgR7c8BV822d6UTiAjiQnGVfyyIZfpYmZg+g
piTvHsg4EzHOIVsMC9lsvP0He2B+qHmHOO6fsAAe
hpqSc+yBNIF1wUgOXzCJDVBIB0Icfd2vKAN2jAub
RfOvt3INsO+3XvdgGBgAH/OepfoIJ/RyuNKjhmbC
AAAAAASUVORK5CYII=

Changelog

• 2006-04-26: Fix silly typos that screwed up validation
• 2006-02-22: Add this changelog
• 2006-02-21: Fix bustage after my provider’s PHP upgrade, by substituting urldecode() with rawurldecode() (and urlencode() with rawurlencode()).