Thanks Peter. Think this is coming from an access database export of some kind so that would probably explain the unknown format.
Am i right in saying its better practice to provide a link to the image file in the xml if possible rather than embedding the actual image. It seems a bit of a recipe for disaster parsing binary data in an xml file and decoding to an image. JB On 2 Sep, 11:15, Peter Hickman <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure that that is an image file per se. If you strip the junk > out from the decoded file you get this: > > ... Packager Shell Object ... Package ... 2010-8-23 _9999_bum > street_Stewart McNicholl_IMAGE_005.jpg ... C:\Users\Stewart > McNicholl\Desktop\2010-8-23 _9999_bum street_Stewart McNicholl_IMAGE > _005.jpg ... C:\Users\STEWAR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\2010-8-23 _9999_bum > street_Stewart McNicholl_IMAGE_005 (2).jpg ... > > It looks like some sort of archive format perhaps. > > A jpeg encoded in base 64 would probably start "/9j/4AAQ....", or > something like that. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
