Posted by Edward Z. Yang on 06/08/07 01:07

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Jon Slaughter wrote:
> I created an image using gd and when I do imagepng I just get the binary
> data for the image written as text instead of the image itself. Now I'm
> writing the file to a temp file and using html to load the temp but seems
> like a waste of cycles and space ;/

The data: URI scheme was created with this sort of functionality in
mind, but it is not supported by many browsers and not recommended.

What you should be doing is caching the generated image files and
referencing those using <img>. Not a waste of cycles at all!

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