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First of all you have to open this file as a binary e.g. fopen("myfile.jpg","rb"); then you shound send the apropriate html headers to display the image e.g. header("Contet-type: image/jpeg"); "Anthony Ritter" <tony@gonefishingguideservice.com> wrote in message news:20021011144729.465.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > The following script picks up single .jpg image of a doppler weather map > from another URL: > ....................................... > <? > $theURL="http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_har_closeradar_medium_usen.jp > g"; > if(!($fp=fopen($theURL, "r"))) > { > print("Could not open the URL."); > exit; > } > $contents=fread($fp,1000000); > print($contents); > fclose($fp); > ?> > ...................................... > > However, when I try to insert the HTML tages into the script like: > > ...................................................... > <HTML> > <HEAD> > <BODY> > This is a map. > <? > $theURL="http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_har_closeradar_medium_usen.jp > g"; > if(!($fp=fopen($theURL, "r"))) > { > print("Could not open the URL."); > exit; > } > $contents=fread($fp,1000000); > print($contents); > fclose($fp); > ?> > </BODY> > </HTML> > .......................................................... > > I get the following: > ÿØÿàJFIF




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