Python cgi script - outputting images

[Gerhard Häring]

On Sun, 01 Jul 2001 15:37:35 GMT, Mexican Bandit <eli-wallach at ugly.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Wondering of anyone can help - Python newbie. I'm trying to write a
>Python cgi script which outputs a gif or jpg image from another
>server...
>
>----
>import urllib
>
>print "Content-Type: image/jpeg"
>print
>
>image = urllib.urlopen("http://127.0.0.1/splogo.jpg")
>print image.read()
>----
>
>The output of the image is corrupted. I suspect this is to do with
>'print' turning everything into strings?
>
>How do I output raw image data?

Your code works fine on my machine. "print" should not be the problem, it has
always worked fine with binary data for me. So it seems your problem is not
Python, but either the browser or the webserver.

Gerhard
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