atob not working in IE

Question

I am trying to use atob for converting base64 encoded data to string. I found its working fine in Mozilla and Chrome, but it is not working in IE. Please tell me any substit

Answer 1

atob and btoa are mozilla specific functions afterwards the support was extended to webkit browser like chrome,safari so it doesn't work in IE.

So better use some other functions like :-

/**
*
*  Base64 encode / decode
*  http://www.webtoolkit.info/
*
**/

var Base64 = {

    // private property
    _keyStr : "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=",

    // public method for encoding
    encode : function (input) {
        var output = "";
        var chr1, chr2, chr3, enc1, enc2, enc3, enc4;
        var i = 0;

        input = Base64._utf8_encode(input);

        while (i < input.length) {

            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 +
            this._keyStr.charAt(enc1) + this._keyStr.charAt(enc2) +
            this._keyStr.charAt(enc3) + this._keyStr.charAt(enc4);

        }

        return output;
    },

    // public method for decoding
    decode : function (input) {
        var output = "";
        var chr1, chr2, chr3;
        var enc1, enc2, enc3, enc4;
        var i = 0;

        input = input.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9\+\/\=]/g, "");

        while (i < input.length) {

            enc1 = this._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
            enc2 = this._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
            enc3 = this._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
            enc4 = this._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);
            }

        }

        output = Base64._utf8_decode(output);

        return output;

    },

    // private method for UTF-8 encoding
    _utf8_encode : function (string) {
        string = string.replace(/\r\n/g,"\n");
        var utftext = "";

        for (var n = 0; n < string.length; n++) {

            var c = string.charCodeAt(n);

            if (c < 128) {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode(c);
            }
            else if((c > 127) && (c < 2048)) {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 6) | 192);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
            }
            else {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 12) | 224);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode(((c >> 6) & 63) | 128);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
            }

        }

        return utftext;
    },

    // private method for UTF-8 decoding
    _utf8_decode : function (utftext) {
        var string = "";
        var i = 0;
        var c = c1 = c2 = 0;

        while ( i < utftext.length ) {

            c = utftext.charCodeAt(i);

            if (c < 128) {
                string += String.fromCharCode(c);
                i++;
            }
            else if((c > 191) && (c < 224)) {
                c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
                string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 31) << 6) | (c2 & 63));
                i += 2;
            }
            else {
                c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
                c3 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+2);
                string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 15) << 12) | ((c2 & 63) << 6) | (c3 & 63));
                i += 3;
            }

        }

        return string;
    }

}

this will resolve your problem

Answer 2

Go to this link and include js present there:

http://code.google.com/p/stringencoders/source/browse/trunk/javascript/base64.js?r=230

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2010 Nick Galbreath
 * See full license on http://code.google.com/p/stringencoders/source/browse/#svn/trunk/javascript
 */

var base64 = {};
base64.PADCHAR = '=';
base64.ALPHA = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/';

base64.makeDOMException = function() {
    // sadly in FF,Safari,Chrome you can't make a DOMException
    var e, tmp;

    try {
        return new DOMException(DOMException.INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR);
    } catch (tmp) {
        // not available, just passback a duck-typed equiv
        // https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Global_Objects/Error
        // https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Global_Objects/Error/prototype
        var ex = new Error("DOM Exception 5");

        // ex.number and ex.description is IE-specific.
        ex.code = ex.number = 5;
        ex.name = ex.description = "INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR";

        // Safari/Chrome output format
        ex.toString = function() { return 'Error: ' + ex.name + ': ' + ex.message; };
        return ex;
    }
}

base64.getbyte64 = function(s,i) {
    // This is oddly fast, except on Chrome/V8.
    //  Minimal or no improvement in performance by using a
    //   object with properties mapping chars to value (eg. 'A': 0)
    var idx = base64.ALPHA.indexOf(s.charAt(i));
    if (idx === -1) {
        throw base64.makeDOMException();
    }
    return idx;
}

base64.decode = function(s) {
    // convert to string
    s = '' + s;
    var getbyte64 = base64.getbyte64;
    var pads, i, b10;
    var imax = s.length
    if (imax === 0) {
        return s;
    }

    if (imax % 4 !== 0) {
        throw base64.makeDOMException();
    }

    pads = 0
    if (s.charAt(imax - 1) === base64.PADCHAR) {
        pads = 1;
        if (s.charAt(imax - 2) === base64.PADCHAR) {
            pads = 2;
        }
        // either way, we want to ignore this last block
        imax -= 4;
    }

    var x = [];
    for (i = 0; i < imax; i += 4) {
        b10 = (getbyte64(s,i) << 18) | (getbyte64(s,i+1) << 12) |
            (getbyte64(s,i+2) << 6) | getbyte64(s,i+3);
        x.push(String.fromCharCode(b10 >> 16, (b10 >> 8) & 0xff, b10 & 0xff));
    }

    switch (pads) {
    case 1:
        b10 = (getbyte64(s,i) << 18) | (getbyte64(s,i+1) << 12) | (getbyte64(s,i+2) << 6);
        x.push(String.fromCharCode(b10 >> 16, (b10 >> 8) & 0xff));
        break;
    case 2:
        b10 = (getbyte64(s,i) << 18) | (getbyte64(s,i+1) << 12);
        x.push(String.fromCharCode(b10 >> 16));
        break;
    }
    return x.join('');
}

base64.getbyte = function(s,i) {
    var x = s.charCodeAt(i);
    if (x > 255) {
        throw base64.makeDOMException();
    }
    return x;
}

base64.encode = function(s) {
    if (arguments.length !== 1) {
        throw new SyntaxError("Not enough arguments");
    }
    var padchar = base64.PADCHAR;
    var alpha   = base64.ALPHA;
    var getbyte = base64.getbyte;

    var i, b10;
    var x = [];

    // convert to string
    s = '' + s;

    var imax = s.length - s.length % 3;

    if (s.length === 0) {
        return s;
    }
    for (i = 0; i < imax; i += 3) {
        b10 = (getbyte(s,i) << 16) | (getbyte(s,i+1) << 8) | getbyte(s,i+2);
        x.push(alpha.charAt(b10 >> 18));
        x.push(alpha.charAt((b10 >> 12) & 0x3F));
        x.push(alpha.charAt((b10 >> 6) & 0x3f));
        x.push(alpha.charAt(b10 & 0x3f));
    }
    switch (s.length - imax) {
    case 1:
        b10 = getbyte(s,i) << 16;
        x.push(alpha.charAt(b10 >> 18) + alpha.charAt((b10 >> 12) & 0x3F) +
               padchar + padchar);
        break;
    case 2:
        b10 = (getbyte(s,i) << 16) | (getbyte(s,i+1) << 8);
        x.push(alpha.charAt(b10 >> 18) + alpha.charAt((b10 >> 12) & 0x3F) +
               alpha.charAt((b10 >> 6) & 0x3f) + padchar);
        break;
    }
    return x.join('');
}