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Asked: 2026-05-30T15:07:31+00:00

Web server generates images and sends them to client directly. There are no URLs

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Web server generates images and sends them to client directly. There are no URLs to the images, for security reasons. For example, if I enter /images/25 URL in the browser server will send it and browser will download it.

Now I want to get this image from Ajax call and then display it on existing page. I can get the image data. My question is: how can I display an image?

$.get("/images/25", function (rawImageData) {
   // ??? Need to add an image to DOM
});

Update

I apologize for being so stupid. Thank you, JW. Of course I can just put img tag with src to my URL. It does not matter if this is a direct URL to an image file or the server sends it dynamically.

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  1. Editorial Team

    So it sounds like there is a URL, and it’s /images/25.

    As far as I know, you can’t display image data that you get from an AJAX call*. But why not just put the URL in an <img> tag? It doesn’t matter to the browser that the image is generated by the server, rather than read from a file.

    *EDIT: I was wrong; see gideon’s answer if you really need to use an AJAX call (e.g. you need to make a POST request, or send certain headers).

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