Thanks Ian ... I had a feeling it was going to be complicated, I just
wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

Looks like I'm relegated to building complex queries or making two
requests.  Thanks again for the time!

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Ian Petersen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> You can send bytes back to the client as an RPC response (it's just an
> HTTP request, after all) but the problem is what to do with the bytes
> once you have them.  If you're willing to restrict yourself to
> browsers that support data:// URLs, you can send the image back as a
> data:// URL and just drop the result into an img tag.  That approach
> excludes many (all?) versions of IE.  As far as I know, the only IE
> that _might_ support data:// URLs is IE8.  To be fully-compatible, you
> need to forge ahead with your existing approach or, as you say,
> generate a URL via RPC and make the generated URL resolve to the
> desired image.
>
> If you want to fool around with the RPC infrastructure, you could
> possibly use a GWT-RPC request payload as the query parameter in a
> standard request, if you think such a representation would be more
> compact/useful than the representation you're currently using.  On the
> server side, you could then use the RPC class (is that still in use?)
> to deserialize the parameters and drive the image request.  Might be
> more trouble than it's worth, though.
>
> Ian
>
> >
>

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