what do you mean by "calling"? The garbage is the image.
On Nov 17, 11:39 pm, David <digitalcry...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was storing the images in postgres. When I tried calling the image
> by the filename it returned the coded filename. When I tried calling
> the image blob it returned garbage.
>
> I was just wondering if there was an example on how to call the images
> from the database as it isn't mentioned in the manual and I don't know
> what takes place on GAE.
>
> On Nov 17, 7:35 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > This is all automatic in web2py is you do not rename the uploaded
> > files.
>
> > On Nov 17, 7:18 pm, Beerc <berces.las...@fomi.hu> wrote:
>
> > > Storing images in database is a bad idea GENERALLY.
> > > But on GAE you can't write the file system, so you have no other
> > > choice for persistent storage.
>
> > > And you will see garbage instead of image if MIME type incorrect or
> > > unsetted.
> > > In general case the web server (e.g. Apache) will set it for you
> > > automatically (if its configuration is correct).
> > > But if YOU serve the files (as in case of GAE) instead of the web
> > > server, then you must to set the MIME type in the HTTP header. Example
> > > for a JPEG file:
> > > Content-Type: image/jpg
> > > Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMEfordetails.
>
>
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