Ah. I was thinking in a different direction: Content-type: multipart/mixed;boundary... something along the lines of O'Reilly's com.oreilly.servlet.MultipartResponse.
This will work though - excellent! Thanks Lev! -jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lev Epshteyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Velocity Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:22 AM Subject: RE: Multipart template > You need to generate the image on a separate request. > > Inside your template, there should be an <img> tag with a src parameter > referencing your servlet > For example: <IMG SRC="http://www.server.com/webapp/servlet?mode=image";> > > The servlet should then return an image as a binary stream if it sees the > "mode=image" parameter. > > There is no way to output both HTML and an image to the browser on the same > request, as HTML doesn't provide a mechanism to "embed" images in the > document, only to reference them. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 1:26 PM > To: Velocity Users List > Subject: Multipart template > > > > Does Velocity provide some way of utilizing a multipart content-type > template? > > In other words: I have a servlet generating data for a Velocity template. > Along with text such as name and address, I want a picture to be embedded > within the web page. HOWEVER, the picture is coming as binary data - NOT a > <img> link or anything like that. > > Limitations: > 1. The picture is not stored as a file, it will come from the servlet as > binary data. > 2. The picture must be embedded within a velocity template somehow. > 3. The template I need the picture to go in is already a very nice Velocity > template - I'm not interested in generating the page html myself or > switching to some other templating system. (I would generate just the > portion of the html for the picture - if I can embed it in the template > somehow) > > Thanks for your help, > Jeff Owens > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
