   var keyStr = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP" +
                "QRSTUVWXYZabcdef" +
                "ghijklmnopqrstuv" +
                "wxyz0123456789+/" +
                "=";

   function encode64(input) {
      var output = "";
      var chr1, chr2, chr3 = "";
      var enc1, enc2, enc3, enc4 = "";
      var i = 0;

      do {
         chr1 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
         chr2 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
         chr3 = input.charCodeAt(i++);

         enc1 = chr1 >> 2;
         enc2 = ((chr1 & 3) << 4) | (chr2 >> 4);
         enc3 = ((chr2 & 15) << 2) | (chr3 >> 6);
         enc4 = chr3 & 63;

         if (isNaN(chr2)) {
            enc3 = enc4 = 64;
         } else if (isNaN(chr3)) {
            enc4 = 64;
         }

         output = output +
            keyStr.charAt(enc1) +
            keyStr.charAt(enc2) +
            keyStr.charAt(enc3) +
            keyStr.charAt(enc4);
         chr1 = chr2 = chr3 = "";
         enc1 = enc2 = enc3 = enc4 = "";
      } while (i < input.length);

      return output;
   }

   function decode64(input) {
      var output = "";
      var chr1, chr2, chr3 = "";
      var enc1, enc2, enc3, enc4 = "";
      var i = 0;

      // remove all characters that are not A-Z, a-z, 0-9, +, /, or =
      var base64test = /[^A-Za-z0-9\+\/\=]/g;
      if (base64test.exec(input)) {
         alert("There were invalid base64 characters in the input text.\n" +
               "Valid base64 characters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, ?+?, ?/?, and ?=?\n" +
               "Expect errors in decoding.");
      }
      input = input.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9\+\/\=]/g, "");

      do {
         enc1 = keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
         enc2 = keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
         enc3 = keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
         enc4 = keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));

         chr1 = (enc1 << 2) | (enc2 >> 4);
         chr2 = ((enc2 & 15) << 4) | (enc3 >> 2);
         chr3 = ((enc3 & 3) << 6) | enc4;

         output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr1);

         if (enc3 != 64) {
            output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr2);
         }
         if (enc4 != 64) {
            output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr3);
         }

         chr1 = chr2 = chr3 = "";
         enc1 = enc2 = enc3 = enc4 = "";

      } while (i < input.length);

      return output;
   }
   
   function validate_submit() {
		user_name = document.getElementById('username').value;
		password  = document.getElementById('password').value;
		if(document.getElementById('remember_me').checked){
			//alert(password);
			Set_Cookie( 'UserName', user_name, '', '/', '', '' );
			Set_Cookie( 'Password', password, '', '/', '', '' );
		}
		document.getElementById('password').value = encode64(document.getElementById('password').value);
   		return true;
   }
   function validat_submit() {
		document.getElementById('Pass').value = encode64(document.getElementById('Pass').value);
   		return true;
   }

   
   function Set_Cookie( name, value, expires, path, domain, secure )
   {
		// set time, it's in milliseconds
		var today = new Date();
		today.setTime( today.getTime() );

		/*
		if the expires variable is set, make the correct
		expires time, the current script below will set
		it for x number of days, to make it for hours,
		delete * 24, for minutes, delete * 60 * 24
		*/
		if ( expires )
		{
		expires = expires * 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
		}
		var expires_date = new Date( today.getTime() + (expires) );

		document.cookie = name + "=" +escape( value ) +
		( ( expires ) ? ";expires=" + expires_date.toGMTString() : "" ) +
		( ( path ) ? ";path=" + path : "" ) +
		( ( domain ) ? ";domain=" + domain : "" ) +
		( ( secure ) ? ";secure" : "" );
   }
   
   function Get_Cookie( check_name ) 
   {
		// first we'll split this cookie up into name/value pairs
		// note: document.cookie only returns name=value, not the other components
		var a_all_cookies = document.cookie.split( ';' );
		var a_temp_cookie = '';
		var cookie_name = '';
		var cookie_value = '';
		var b_cookie_found = false; // set boolean t/f default f

		for ( i = 0; i < a_all_cookies.length; i++ )
		{
			// now we'll split apart each name=value pair
			a_temp_cookie = a_all_cookies[i].split( '=' );


			// and trim left/right whitespace while we're at it
			cookie_name = a_temp_cookie[0].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');

			// if the extracted name matches passed check_name
			if ( cookie_name == check_name )
			{
				b_cookie_found = true;
				// we need to handle case where cookie has no value but exists (no = sign, that is):
				if ( a_temp_cookie.length > 1 )
				{
					cookie_value = unescape( a_temp_cookie[1].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '') );
				}
				// note that in cases where cookie is initialized but no value, null is returned
				return cookie_value;
				break;
			}
			a_temp_cookie = null;
			cookie_name = '';
		}
		if ( !b_cookie_found )
		{
			return null;
		}
   }

