How to render remote images through controller action?

Question

In my asp.net mvc3 project I have attachments section where user can upload his confidental images(scanned contracts), which i store on remote server. But when i render attachments i don't want to give full URI of image like

<img href="http://imageURI..." />.

I think i can render them trough controller action like

public ActionResult RenderImage
{
    return File(...);
}

but in method File I can't pass URI path.

Can anyone suggest me better solution.

possible duplicate of [Can an ASP.Net MVC controller return an Image?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/186062/can-an-asp-net-mvc-controller-return-an-image) — Alexandru Chichinete, Jun 03 '14 at 14:23
Or here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/186062/can-an-asp-net-mvc-controller-return-an-image — Dima, Jun 03 '14 at 14:37

Thurein · Answer 1 · 2014-06-05T08:28:22.600

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If the client browser is not IE8, just use Data URI Image. Check this out.

@Html.DrawImage("content/images/cat.jpg","funny cat")

Output

<img alt="funny cat" src="data:image/jgp:base64,________" />

edited Jun 05 '14 at 08:28

answered Jun 05 '14 at 08:05

Thurein

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Can you please clarify your answer? – rhughes Jun 05 '14 at 08:08
Basically the idea is to transform your locally stored images into data-URI images. So that you don't have to expose the hotlinks of your images. – Thurein Jun 05 '14 at 08:13
@KyawThurein - I think a 100MB data uri might be excessive – Erik Funkenbusch Jun 05 '14 at 15:13

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