Your last option is what would be considered best practice. Set the headers
correctly and return the content of the binary as your response.
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:24 AM, David Buchmann <david.buchm...@liip.ch>wrote:
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> hi,
>
> i have binary content that i have to deliver to the client. what is the
> right way to do it? i found two solutions, but neither seems really good.
>
>
>
> //in my controller, i get a binary stream (its stored in the database)
>
> $picture = $this->method_that_returns_resource_stream();
>
> // i can just use plain php and dump and die. not nice.
> header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
> fpassthru($picture);
> die;
>
>
> /*
> or i can use a response, but then i have to read the stream into memory,
> which is unefficient.
> */
>
> $response = new Response(stream_get_contents($picture));
> $response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'image/jpeg');
> return $response;
>
>
> cheers,
> david
>
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