CGI to make PNG image

[Andre van Straaten]

MSIE can't read png images at all, NN can from version 4.7 (or 4.6 ?).
Try
www.vanstraatensoft.com/fetchmail.png
and
www.vanstraatensoft.com/fetchmail.gif

I changed that image some month ago.
png is much propagated, but not much supported.

-- avs

Take Sato <tkssato at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:

> I made a simple CGI script to return images on WinNT with Apache1.3.12.

> It works all right to return JPEG,GIF,BMP images,
> but not with PNG.
> (IE5.0 and NS4.5 cannot understand it as correct image)

> I don't know what's wrong with it.
> Can anyone help me ?

> -----------------------------
> import Image
> try:
>     import msvcrt,os  #set standard output to binary mode
>     msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(),os.O_BINARY)
> except: pass

> im=Image.open("foo1.jpg")

> ... # some operation

> print "Content-type: image/png"
> print
> im.save(sys.stdout,"png")

> #NOTE! above script works fine if it's like following,
> # (once saved as file and reopened.)
> print "Content-type: image/png"
> print
> im.save("foo2.png","png")
> print open("foo2.png","rb").read()


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