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Bug 22916 - The step 3 of atob() is to remove space characters from input, but note below step 11 says these cause an exception to be thrown.
Summary: The step 3 of atob() is to remove space characters from input, but note below...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-08-12 08:23 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-08-12 23:14 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2013-08-12 08:23:54 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/webappapis.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#base64-table
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#base64-table
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Comment:
The step 3 of atob() is to remove space characters from input, but note below
step 11 says these cause an exception to be thrown.

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Comment 1 contributor 2013-08-12 23:14:51 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8141.
Check-in comment: Remove obsolete note about spaces in base64 causing exceptions in atob
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8140&to=8141