Re: How to use "Content-type: multipart..." with CGI

["Jack Welch" <welchj@xxxxxxxx>]

Base 64 Encoder/decoder here...
http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/Base64Encode/Default.aspx

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> Thank you for all of the responses.
>
> My first task was to learn about Base64.  I learned a lot from Scott Klements
> (thank you!) article http://systeminetwork.com/article/base64-built-ibm-i .
>
> Since then I have tried several things.    As previously mentioned, we use
> AlternaTIFF to view our tiff images.  Their documentation suggests a number of
> methods to embed TIFF documents with HTML.  At the moment, the most promising seems
> to be the OBJECT tag.  Their example looks like this -
>
> <object width=200 height=200
>   classid="CLSID:106E49CF-797A-11D2-81A2-00E02C015623">
> <param name="src" value="tiffdocument.tif">
> <param name="negative" value="yes">
> </object>
>
> Note: the value for CLASSID forces the browser to use the AlternaTIFF viewer.
>
> I then searched how to use Base64 with the OBJECT tag and came up with this -
>
> <object id="test" width=100% height=75%
> classid="CLSID:106E49CF-797A-11D2-81A2-00E02C015623"
> data="data:application/x-oleobject;base64, .......Base64 data..........
> ">test2</object>
>
> My problem is thast I am not sure that the encoding is properly working.  I
> searched for sites that would test Base64 data as well as sample Base64 data - but
> I had no luck.
>
> Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
> p.s. This application is for internal use only with IE.
>
>
>
> From: Joe Wells
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:38 AM
> To: 'web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: How to use "Content-type: multipart..." with CGI
>
> A little back ground -
>
> 1) We use CGI (similar to, but not CGIDEV) for our web based applications
> 2) We have written a web based viewer for our imaging repository,
> 3) We use Alternatiff to display the tiff images from our web based viewer.  These
> images open in a separate window and are streamed to the browser with a mime type
> of "Content-Type: image/tiff".  This works very well.
>
> Now the question -
>
> I would like to display some other HTML above the image.  Thoughts on how this
> could be done?  I have experimented with "Content-type: multipart....", but have
> not had any luck.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> Joe
>
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