If you're able to read the binary data from the db, then it's a simple matter of piping/sending the data to the the http client (browser) using the proper mime type in the "Content-Type" header.
If you want to embed the image in css or html (in the same http request), then it needs to be base64 encoded using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme In wheat, the blog engine for howtonode.org, none of the files exist on the filesystem. They are all pulled out of a git database and piped to the browser on the fly. I added in some smart caching to make it faster, but the same idea works for any data source. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Angelo Chen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I have small jpegs stored in a database (firebird), what is a good > approach to show those jpegs in a page? Thanks, > > Angelo > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
