Imagine opening an image file on your computer with notepad. I am trying to get the same result from an img tag or an Image object with javascript. Is this possible?
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1I am morbidly curious as to what you are trying to accomplish! Check out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7370943/retrieving-binary-file-content-using-javascript-base64-encode-it-and-reverse-de – Matt Feb 15 '13 at 16:19
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this might be what you're after, base64 representation of hte image ... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6150289/how-to-convert-image-into-base64-string-using-javascript – Alex Feb 15 '13 at 16:20
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Is this what you are looking for? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5420384/convert-an-image-into-binary-data-in-javascript – naomi Feb 15 '13 at 16:20
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@Xander So if the image is really a plain text file, could I recover that text from an img tag or Image object? – Bob Feb 16 '13 at 00:13
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You can send an AJAX request to the image URL on the server.
If the server sends good caching headers, that won't even waste bandwidth.
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I am trying to accomplish this without ajax, I know how to use xmlhttprequest. – Bob Feb 15 '13 at 16:20