Displaying a jpeg from a URL in labview

Question

I need to make a labview VI that will display a jpeg image from a URL. (the url is generated based on some data)

I've found a way to display an image from the hard drive (Read JPEG File), so what I probably need is just a way to download it to a temporary file.

All I've found are some low level TCP client VI's. Is there an easier way? If there isn't I can just open a browser window, but I'd rather not.

Answer 1

Have a look at this LAVA post, titled Downloading an image from a Web server using Datasocket. The only disadvantage is that it is not cross-platform, it will only work on Windows, on Linux I have seen this code killing LabVIEW.

The OpenG Internet Connectivity toolkit has code that is cross-platform.

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