From 0ea0bc85deba6644d6de5cc385b6b09c06b6015d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sjgjones <sjgjones@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:12:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] VTT-4934 btoa issue (#245)

Co-authored-by: stephen jones <stephen.jones@alertlogic.com>
---
 package.json                | 2 +-
 src/client/al-api-client.ts | 5 +----
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f3d67dbd..dd276728 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@al/core",
-  "version": "1.0.194",
+  "version": "1.0.195",
   "description": "Node Enterprise Packages for Alert Logic (NEPAL) Core Library",
   "main": "./dist/index.cjs.js",
   "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
diff --git a/src/client/al-api-client.ts b/src/client/al-api-client.ts
index c2abfbef..1ef2e7a5 100644
--- a/src/client/al-api-client.ts
+++ b/src/client/al-api-client.ts
@@ -584,12 +584,9 @@ export class AlApiClient implements AlValidationSchemaProvider
   }
 
   /**
-   * Converts a string input to its base64 encoded equivalent.  Uses browser-provided btoa if available, or 3rd party btoa module as a fallback.
+   * Converts a string input to its base64 encoded equivalent.
    */
   public base64Encode( data:string ):string {
-    if ( this.isBrowserBased() && window.btoa ) {
-        return btoa( data );
-    }
     let utf8Data = unescape( encodeURIComponent( data ) );        //  forces conversion to utf8 from utf16, because...  not sure why
     let bytes = [];
     for ( let i = 0; i < utf8Data.length; i++ ) {