Retrieving gif data from a RESTful map server

[MacBox at earthlink.net]

Thanks to Devin, Jim, and Mark for taking a crack at this, but it seems this was not a solvable problem as desired. Thierry offered to take a look at an actual download of the gif, and he determined that the data is somehow corrupt. Although Preview and Safari seem to be able to deal with it, LC can't.

I ended up taking another route and loaded the gif calling URL into an LC browser. Unfortunately even the webkit browser seems to have a slight issue with the alpha channel (there is no transparency), but since the iOS browser offers its own Alpha channel, I can make the map under the browser show through the grey of the gif (that should have been be transparent).

It's not as flexible as having a simple image object, but it's workable for this project. Thanks for all the suggestions!