I have a strange request and am really desparate to figure this out. I've tried about everything I can think of on my end.

I'm getting back a GIF byte stream, however we are running SCO Unix which won't let us compile the GD library to use the built in image functions. The thought was we could just open a new file, send the data in binary format, and save with a GIF extension. However, while the image size being written is correct, we are getting a broken image.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Lisa

Here is the byte data we are using:

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    can you save the file as gif and open it later with an image program?

    are you sending the proper headers down and nothing else in the page...since that often screws up images?

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