DOM Exception 5 INVALID CHARACTER error on valid base64 image string in javascript
Solution 1
I was just banging my head against the wall on this one for awhile.
There are a couple of possible causes to the problem. 1) Utf-8 problems. There's a good write up + a solution for that here.
In my case, I also had to make sure all the whitespace was out of the string before passing it to atob. e.g.
function decodeFromBase64(input) {
input = input.replace(/\s/g, '');
return atob(input);
}
What was really frustrating was that the base64 parsed correctly using the base64 library in python, but not in JS.
Solution 2
I had to remove the data:audio/wav;base64,
in front of the b64, as this was given as part of the b64.
var data = b64Data.substring(b64Data.indexOf(',')+1);
var processed = atob(data);
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Updated on October 04, 2020Comments
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user1387717 over 3 years
I'm trying to decode a base64 string for an image back into binary so it can be downloaded and displayed locally by an OS.
The string I have successfully renders when put as the src of an HTML IMG element with the data URI preface (data: img/png;base64, ) but when using the atob function or a goog closure function it fails.
However decoding succeeds when put in here: http://www.base64decode.org/
Any ideas?
EDIT: I successfully got it to decode with another library other than the built-in JS function. But, it still won't open locally - on a Mac says it's damaged or in an unknown format and can't get opened.
The code is just something like:
imgEl.src = 'data:img/png;base64,' + contentStr; //this displays successfully decodedStr = window.atob(contentStr); //this throws the invalid char exception but i just //used a different script to get it decode successfully but still won't display locally
the base64 string itself is too long to display here (limit is 30,000 characters)
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Amod almost 9 yearsThanks ! It is a life saver. I had a ridiculously long PDF in Base64, and it was creating error in mobile application but was working in web browser. Removing spaces did work.
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echappy almost 9 yearsThank you for this. I had a similar problem but it was a trailing carriage return that was only showing up in Safari. This same methodology fixed it.
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Alex about 8 yearsRails apparently chops base64 pretty frequently, and Chrome will ignore the whitespace while Safari won't. Your
replace
suggestion got my app working on Safari again. Thanks for this! -
Cody Crumrine over 6 yearsHuge help. Couldn't figure out why my atob worked in Chrome and FF but not IE. Took way too long to find this. : )
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Muhammad Zubair Saleem about 5 yearsThanks, it's a life saver.