Problem Displaying Pics

Rami Chowdhury rami.chowdhury at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 17:11:54 EDT 2009


On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:05:25 -0700, Victor Subervi  
<victorsubervi at gmail.com> wrote:

> print 'Content-Type: image/jpeg'
> print 'Content-Encoding: base64'
> print
> print content.encode('base64')
>
> I did change it to text/plain, but I don't know how I'm supposed to  
> manually
> decode it. Yes, it printed out a bunch of crap to the screen. I've gotten
> that far before, and once I read "Adobe" something, so yes, it's an  
> image.
> TIA,
> V
>

Hopefully the 'crap' you're getting is the base64-encoded representation  
of your binary image -- you should be able to use Python to decode that,  
and then use any image viewer to verify that the JPEG is sound.

Can you remind us of the URL where that code (with the text/plain content  
type) is running?


> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Rami Chowdhury  
> <rami.chowdhury at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:24:28 -0700, Victor Subervi <
>> victorsubervi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I did that. In fact, just to make things easier, I wrote out exactly  
>> what
>>> is
>>> supposed to be rendered, as below:
>>>
>>> #!/usr/local/bin/python
>>> import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
>>> import MySQLdb
>>> import cgi
>>> import sys,os
>>> sys.path.append(os.getcwd())
>>> from login import login
>>> user, passwd, db, host = login()
>>> form = cgi.FieldStorage()
>>> db = MySQLdb.connect(host, user, passwd, db)
>>> cursor= db.cursor()
>>> sql = "select pic1 from products where id='1';"
>>> cursor.execute(sql)
>>> content = cursor.fetchall()[0][0].tostring()
>>> cursor.close()
>>> print '''Content-Type: image/jpeg'''    # Only print one line
>>>
>>> Content-Encoding: base64
>>> '''
>>> print
>>> print content.encode('base64')
>>>
>>>
>> Just to reiterate what Gabriel and Carsten have pointed out, I'd suggest
>> changing the last few lines of the script, as the comments below  
>> indicate:
>>
>> print '''Content-Type: image/jpeg''' # One header line
>> print '''Content-Encoding: base64''' # Another header line. Note *no*  
>> blank
>> line between them
>> print                                # Blank line signals the end of the
>> headers
>> print content.encode(base64)         # Base64-encoded content comes  
>> *after*
>> the blank line
>>
>> If you include extra blank lines after the headers, the browser will
>> misunderstand where the binary image data begins, and so will see a
>> malformed JPEG.
>>
>> If this doesn't work, I suggest changing the content-type header to
>> text/plain and trying to manually decode and check the image data to  
>> ensure
>> it's valid.
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Gabriel Genellina  
>>> <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>>  En Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:00:13 -0300, Victor Subervi
>>>> <victorsubervi at gmail.com> escribió:
>>>>
>>>> > print '''Content-Type: image/jpeg
>>>> >
>>>> > '''
>>>> > print
>>>> > print content
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-
>>>> py2 at yahoo.com.ar>wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > That's still wrong. The output should be:
>>>> >
>>>> > - a line containing Content-Type: image/jpeg
>>>> > - a blank line (no more!)
>>>>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>> > - the actual image data
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Gabriel Genellina
>>>> --
>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Rami Chowdhury
>> "Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity" --
>> Hanlon's Razor
>> 408-597-7068 (US) / 07875-841-046 (UK) / 0189-245544 (BD)
>>



-- 
Rami Chowdhury
"Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity" --  
Hanlon's Razor
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