Display image from a public website

Question

User1510859543 posted

We are trying to display an image from another website (see image control below) and it is not working.  All we get is some default tiny thing or an X where the image should be.  I have tried using http prefix as well as file prefix but neither one works. I even tried setting in code-behind.  What am I missing?

p.s. the uploads folder is a virtual folder with everyone permissions.

        <asp:Image ID="Image1" runat="server" ImageUrl="http://myweb.com/uploads/2201811.jpg" />
	or
        <asp:Image ID="Image1" runat="server" ImageUrl="file:///myweb.com/uploads/2201811.jpg" />

	and code-behind

        Image1.ImageUrl = "http://myweb.com/uploads/2201811.jpg"

Answer 1

User475983607 posted

Either the image URL is incorrect or the other site does not allow hot linking.

Answer 2

User1510859543 posted

Yes, it was an authorization issue. I added auth credentials to vdir and now it works.

Answer 3

User1510859543 posted

Is it possible to stream the image so I can save it?

Answer 4

User475983607 posted

dlchase

Is it possible to stream the image so I can save it?

Your question is not clear.

This code snippet...

<asp:Image ID="Image1" runat="server" ImageUrl="http://myweb.com/uploads/2201811.jpg" />

Is simply a URL to the image.  The browser does an HTTP GET when it sees the img tg generated from the image server control.  You can get the same affect by simply placing the image URL in the browser's address bar.   It does not make sense that this was an authentication issue as images are not generally secured unless you are using an Http Handler which is not clear from the code.

Answer 5

User1510859543 posted

All I know is that after I added credentials to the virtual directory in IIS the image started displaying.

Regarding streaming...I would like to stream the image from the url and save it to a .jpg file on the calling website.  Both websites are ours.  Thanks.

Answer 6

User475983607 posted

Regarding streaming...I would like to stream the image from the url and save it to a .jpg file on the calling website.  Both websites are ours.  Thanks.

You want to download an image using C#?  I use HttpClient.

Answer 7

User1510859543 posted

Would you use the GetStreamAsynch method?

Answer 8

User475983607 posted

Would you use the GetStreamAsynch method?

What I don't understand is why do you want to download the image when you can simply link to the image?  And if you own both sites then copy the image to the other site.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26958829/how-do-i-use-the-new-httpclient-from-windows-web-http-to-download-an-image

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/cb291169-aacc-407a-ae33-0d06783ed56f/download-a-jpeg-file-and-store-it-in-the-localfolder?forum=winappswithcsharp

Answer 9

User1510859543 posted

Yes, the network admin is going to make the images from server1 available to server2 so we can possibly move or copy them from the remote server (server1) to our intranet server (server2).