Question

Can anyone please let me know why, when I am trying to access the image URL through the browser, it shows bunch of junk characters with a content type of text/plain.

eg: https://www.domainname.com/client/image-name.jpg shows as like below

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Please provide advice about what I have missed in my code.

Answer 1

You probably did not send the proper header while rendering the image to the browser:

<?php
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');