Is this a valid base64 string of jpeg?
data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wBDAAMCAgICAgMCAgIDAwMDBAYEBAQEBAgGBgUGCQgKCgkICQkKDA8MCgsOCwkJDRENDg8QEBEQCgwSExIQEw8QEBD/2wBDAQMDAwQDBAgEBAgQCwkLEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBD
That characters in question are the '/9j/' after the 'base64,'
I'm guessing it could be to do with compression as it's JPEG.
As when compared to a base64 string of a png, the pattern is different, i.e. the character pattern is different from above.
data:image/png;base64,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
The origin of my problem is that i'm base64 encoding an array of canvases into .jpeg's and .png's - the .png's output fine whereas the .jpeg's always output as black boxes.
I'm capturing the images using html2canvas (javascript), they are 'images' of html nodes, I have played around with transparency issues, like setting the background of the dom nodes to white.
All of the jpeg images I am encoding have this '/9j/' pattern, i'm generating them in a loop so it may well be a common property all the images have.
I can't seem to find a decent tool online to validate base64 strings either.
