---
title: req.body.base64
summary: null
url: >-
  https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/vcl/variables/client-request/req-body-base64
---

**Type:** STRING  
**Access:** read-only

**Available in:** all subroutines

Same as `req.body`, except the request body is
encoded in Base64, which handles null characters and allows representation of
binary bodies.