load an image from an ASP script??

[DOGWATCH]

Problem:
I want to be able to display an image on a web page that is pointed to a ASP script. For example.

<img src="

http://www.myserver.com/firstimage.asp">

firstimage.asp
This file should recall a URL from the database that points to an image.

I've seen this done in PERL and I assume it can be done with ASP any ideas or code snippets?

 

[ChrisHirst]

something like this thread333-1055739 maybe.



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[DOGWATCH]

Not quite what I was looking for. Here is an example in Perl.

<IMG src="

http://ogc.navy.mil/ogcwww-cgi/infocon.cgi">

which will show an image on a web page. I want to do a similar sort of thing in ASP.

 

[Sheco]

Ah you'll want to make a ASP that has no html interface ... that has no webness

The script on the page will determine which image file and then set the MIME type to the appropriate thing so it isn't the default "text/html" ... perhaps "image/jpeg" would work for you. Then you read the bytes of the file into the response object.

 

[Sheco]

A google search for ASP Response.BinaryWrite "image/jpeg" gives some good examples that you may find helpful.

The secret I guess is knowing what words to use in the search.

 

[DOGWATCH]

The examples shown are storing the images in a SQL blob which is not really the direction I want to go.

I want to recall images and or documents from a .ASP link. for example image would be shown as
<img src="

http://www.myserver.com/showimage.asp?id=200">

and for documents I would show this link

<a href="

http://www.myserver.com/showdoc.asp?id=200">Weekly

Schedule</a>

The idea is that you would have a font end static HTML page with these links on it that never change. On the back end i would have an ASP admin screen where documents and images would be uploaded.

I know there is a way to do this in ASP because I have done it before serveral years ago. I just can't recall my old code.

 

[Sheco]

So you don't want to store the file itself in the database?

Instead will you save the file path in the database and have the file just out in the filesystem?

If so then you need a way to get a binary stream so the plain FSO won't help ... you can abuse the ADO recordset ... force it to give you a stream by telling it to load from file then taking the stream... doesn't matter that the file is not actaully a persisted recordset... thats why it is abuse. heh.

 

[Sheco]

Ah, ADO Stream, not recordset...

Anyway, take a look at this from Microsoft's site:

How To Use the ADODB.Stream Object to Send Binary Files to the Browser through ASP