Request in src attribute of <img> tag is not processing

Question

Hi All : I have a request which contains parameters and response will give barcode image. We are using Comergent frame work.

<img src="../direct/bestbuy?cmd=BBFBGenerateBarCode&type=code128&msg=12345&fmt=JPEG&height=10&hrsize=5pt" alt="Barcode" width="166" height="44">

The above will go the controller "BBFBGenerateBarCode" and execute the corresponding java class "BarCodeGenerator.java" which will create barcode image and return image in response.

Problem i am facing is, i need to display this image in two things. One is Print page and another in email. If i use the above code in Print.jsp, the request get processed and goes to BarCodeGenerator.java class(i have used system.out.println() in BarCodeGenerator.java) and create image and displaying in printpage But if i use the above image tag in confirmemail.jsp(will send email to user), request is not processing and i cant able to see the image in mail. Please help me.

Answer 1

This may seem like an elementary issue, and I apologize if you have already discovered that this isn't the problem, but if you are using the literal path of ../direct/bestbuy?cmd=BBFBGenerateBarCode&type=code128&msg=12345&fmt=JPEG&height=10&hrsize=5pt in your email, you will never get an image from that, at least from a desktop email client.

What you want to be doing, is prefixing it with the server name/path. Assuming that mydomain.com is the domain name you are using, you will want to update your email content to have the following image tag:

<img src="http://mydomain.com/direct/bestbuy?cmd=BBFBGenerateBarCode&amp;type=code128&amp;msg=12345&amp;fmt=JPEG&amp;height=10&amp;hrsize=5pt" alt="Barcode" width="166" height="44">

This also assumes correct pathing to the /direct/bestbuy servlet/jsp/etc.