Posted by Mark on 02/01/08 05:07

I've managed to extract the url of a favicon on the web, but now I
need to extract the image data to produce something like

data:image/x-icon;base64,AAABAAEAEBAAAAEAIABoBAAAF...

I can read the binary data just fine using file_get_contents() but
that's not what I need... does anyone know how to extract the data of
an image like that? I can't even seem to get the mime type, and
reading the file contents as text doesn't produce a string like that
either... it's all just weird characters. I want to pass that data
into <object data="here" />.

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