Yeah, I figured that out between posts ;) On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:39 AM, J. Cliff Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 09:52 -0500, Victor Subervi wrote: > > Never mind. Apparently, these tags throw it for that loop: > > print '<html><body>\n' > > I´m surprised they would, but gratified I found the problem. > > Victor > > > > > > Why does that surprise you? A jpeg has a well-defined header that tells > whatever application is rendering it what to look for. By putting those > tags at the beginning of the data sent to your browser, you're no longer > getting a well-formed jpeg. The header is wrong. > > As an experiment, if you're on *nix, or have access to a decent shell, > try this: > > $ echo '<html><body>' > newfile.jpg > $ cat /path/to/any_normal_jpeg >> newfile.jpg > $ echo '</body></html>' >> newfile.jpg > > If you don't have access to a shell, open a JPEG with your favorite text > editor, and manually add "<html><body>" to the beginning, and save it > out. > > Then try to open newfile in any piece of software of your choosing. > It's no longer a well-formed jpeg, so it won't work. That's exactly > what you're asking the browser to do. > > I guess this isn't really python related, so my apologies for that. > > Cheers, > Cliff > > > > > -- > Oook, > J. Cliff Dyer > Carolina Digital Library and Archives > UNC Chapel Hill > >
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