data url

asavva

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Hi all am newbie to progress and

am trying to use data urls for displaying images on browsers like this
<img src="data:image/gif;base64,DATA"/> where DATA is the raw data that fetch from a database.

This works fine with most browsers but not with IE, after some search i found this workaround:
http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2005/06/base64-ie/
the solution is to use for the img src a link to a page which will return the data and and set the http header to the appropriate mime type.

My problem is that i can not find a way to print on the web page the raw data because of non printable characters.

To make this more clear i sent the data url encoded through a query string parameter to this page and i need to url decode them and print them.
i have something like this:
{&OUT} url-decode(get-value("imgdata")).

it prints GIF87a only.

Check this link to see an example of data urls.
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/data/data

Thank you.

Andreas.
 
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