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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I do not seem to have success in generating a dynamic image into Internet Explorer through CGI. If I save the file and then load it, it works but when I try to keep the generated image dynamic… I am using Python 2.6.5 and the corresponding PIL library.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F3F3F3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>f = cStringIO.StringIO()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F3F3F3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>img.save(f, <span style='color:green'>"PNG"</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F3F3F3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F3F3F3'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#0000C0'>print</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <span style='color:green'>"Content-type: image/png\n"</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F3F3F3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>f.seek(0)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F3F3F3'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#0000C0'>print</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> f.read()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F3F3F3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>The above will just generate a screen filled with ascii characters and symbols. I have also tried JPEG to no avail.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Below generates a blank image:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sys.stdout.write('Status: 200 OK\r\n')<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sys.stdout.write('Content-type: image/png\r\n\n')<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sys.stdout.write('%s' % f.getvalue())<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sys.stdout.write('\r\n')<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can someone point out my error here? Writing to file in a cgi environment is not a great thing to be doing. Img.sav(‘test.png’) is valid.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>