Receive Image data as JSON and injecting it into the DOM

Question

I am packaging an image into jSON and sending it to the client .... On the client side I wish to display this data as a image ...

I am not sending the Image URL via JSON ... I am trying to send the whole image data itself

JSON image data that I receive in the client looks like this:

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Answer 1

You can accomplish this with data URL's in all browsers save for IE7 and below. The basic format is this:

<img src="data:image/png;base64,R0lGODlhEAAOALMAAOazToeHh0tLS/7LZv/0jvb29t/f3//Ub/
/ge8WSLf/rhf/3kdbW1mxsbP//mf///yH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAQAA4AAARe8L1Ekyky67QZ1hLnjM5UUde0ECwLJoExKcpp
V0aCcGCmTIHEIUEqjgaORCMxIC6e0CcguWw6aFjsVMkkIr7g77ZKPJjPZqIyd7sJAgVGoEGv2xsBxqNgYPj/gAwXEQA7">

You can read more about it here: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/inline-images/

Answer 2

I don't know how elegant your solution is, but you could encode the image as BASE64 and inline it using:

<img src="data:image/png;base64,BASE64_ENCODED_DATA_HERE">

It might also be noteworthy to say, that BASE64 encoding adds about ~33% overhead. Instead, you might create some temporary directory on your server, where you store such images and delete them after the request?