Writing byte stream as jpeg format to disk

[Navkirat Singh]

On 27-Aug-2010, at 1:10 AM, Robert Kern wrote:

> On 8/26/10 1:25 PM, Navkirat Singh wrote:
>> 
>> On 26-Aug-2010, at 11:01 PM, John Bokma wrote:
>> 
>>> Navkirat Singh<navkirats at gmail.com>  writes:
>>> 
>>>> Hey guys,
>>>> 
>>>> I am programming a webserver, I receive a jpeg file with the POST
>>>> method.The file (.jpeg) is encoded in bytes, I parse the bytes by
>>>> decoding them to a string.
>>> 
>>> Why?
>>> 
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>> 
>> why? I am not quite sure what you have not understood.
> 
> Why decode the bytes to (presumably) unicode strings just to encode them back to bytes again? JPEG is not composed of unicode characters; you need to leave them as bytes.
> 
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The image bytes are a part of a HTTP header content ( not the message body ). To separate the header content from the image I have to first convert the bytes to string to perform parsing. The resultant string then needs to be converted back to the image. Hence, my problem.