VTT-4934 btoa issue (#245)

Co-authored-by: stephen jones <[email protected]>

Author: sjgjones

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",

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++ ) {