Display image from http response with image content type

Question

Let's say I have url and don't know what it will return. I perform ajax call to that url with javascript and get the content. So I test it's content-type and decide how to show response in my webpage. In case it is json or html or any other text, I append the formatted content as I need.

Now when the content type is image, I get the image's data in response, which is not base64 encoded. I need to show the image in a regular <img> tag of course. And here is where I get stuck.

Is there a way to show image from it's content data?

EDIT

Just to make it clear, hear is what I get in response:

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Answer 1

var rawResponse = "�PNG...."; // truncated for example

// convert to Base64
var b64Response = btoa(rawResponse);

// create an image
var outputImg = document.createElement('img');
outputImg.src = 'data:image/png;base64,'+b64Response;

// append it to your page
document.body.appendChild(outputImg);

Answer 2

The accepted answer didn't worked for me. So here's my solution:

1. I'm using fetch to download image, so I need to read response as blob:

let data;
fetch(url).then(response => {
  response.blob().then(blobResponse => {
    data = blobResponse;
  })
});

2. Displaying blob as image:

const urlCreator = window.URL || window.webkitURL;
document.getElementById('myImage').src = urlCreator.createObjectURL(data);