So here's the situation. I have some code that generates images dynamically. It works, mostly.
Sometimes the image will show up as a broken image in the browser. If I reload the page once or twice, the image comes up fine. On a page with 5 different dynamic images (all generated by the same chunk of code, it's a set of graphs), I'll often see 1 or 2 as a broken image, but the rest work. Sometimes all 5 are ok. I tried out a scheme of writing them to disk with dynamically generated files, but since I still need to do some auth checking, they end up being served dynamically and I have the same problem. To make it even weirder, I just took a look at one of the image files that showed up as broken, and it's fine (I can't view it directly in my browser). I can't for the life of me figure out what the heck is going on. It seems that the image data is just fine. Could the browser be timing out for some reason? This has been seen in multiple browsers too (Galeon and IE, at least) so it's not browser-specific. I'd love to fix the root cause, but a workaround would be fine too. The fundamental problem is that there's no way to not have some code involved in this process because there needs to be some auth checking before the image is served. Any help would be much appreciated. -dave /*================== www.urth.org we await the New Sun ==================*/
