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Here's the scenario: I have two machines on a LAN network. One of them is acting as a web server. When the second, client machine browser (Firefox) makes a request from the server, it sends the following html
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<body>
<img src="C:\Users\General\Desktop\map1.jpg" align="middle">
</body>
</html>
The image however is not displayed. I have tried the following variations to the img tag:
<img src="C:/Users/General/Desktop/map1.jpg" align="middle">
<img src="file:///C:/Users/General/Desktop/map1.jpg" align="middle">
<img src="http://localhost//file:/C:/Users/General/Desktop/map1.jpg" align="middle">
Funny thing is if I view the page source and save the html content to a local file and open it in the browser it works. The exact same html code does not work when fetched from the server, but works when opened on the local machine.
Please note that I'm trying to load the image off the client machine because it is impossible to store an image on the server machine in my scenario. (The server is actually an Arduino Mega without an SD card)
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The HTML <img> tag is used to embed an image in a web page. Images are not technically inserted into a web page; images are linked to web pages. The <img> tag creates a holding space for the referenced image. The <img> tag is empty, it contains attributes only, and does not have a closing tag.
To insert image in an HTML page, use the <img> tags. It is an empty tag, containing only attributes since the closing tag is not required. Just keep in mind that you should use the <img> tag inside <body>… </body> tag.
In most recent browsers, links to local files ( file:/// ) do not open, for security purposes. In your case, the browser does not display an image that resides on a file on your hard disk. This reason also explains why it works when you save your page locally.
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