problem for the ancients - headless cgi mode and images

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Apr 28 23:38:31 EDT 2012


On 4/28/12 5:48 PM, Bryan McCormick wrote:
> Folks,
>
> This is aimed at people who know the vagaries of the headless cgi mode
> of old.
>
> I am trying to set an image in a headless stack and then get its
> imagedata. In other words, setting it to "http://blurf.com/myremote.jpg"
>
> It does not appear to be working. Is this because the stack had no
> access to http?

I think it's because CGIs do not load the graphical interface, so they 
don't load or draw any images. I'm not sure there's a way around that, 
unless you can read in the raw binary file and work with it that way.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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