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Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:16 am**

Hi All,

Take a look at this screenshot. It shows the same webpage
loaded from mchttpd and opened directly in the browser:

mchttpd01.jpg

Test this by yourself. Download the stack from:
http://fourthworld.net/lc/mchttpd-4W.zip

Open the stack, click start server and load this webpage
in the browser: http://127.0.0.1:8080/index.html

Why loading this webpage using mchttpd does not show
all images?

Now load the same index.html directly from hard disk,
(not using mchttpd) and the internet browser show all
images correctly.

Notice that when I load an image directly, through mchttpd
the browser shows the binary data of the image as text.
for example: http://127.0.0.1:8080/index.png

mchttpd02.png

Just in case that it was a problem of mime types, I changed
every instance of "text/html" to "image/png" and it does
not shows the image anyway.

Which changes requires the script of mchttpd to load
in the browser all png or jpg as images instead of text?

Al

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2018 3:21 am**

After reading many webpages, I found the answer:
replace "file" with "binfile" in this script:

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 if the platform is "MacOS" then 
 put "binfile:" & oDir  & "/html/" & pFile into xFile
    else put "file:"& oDir  & "/html/" & pFile into xFile

This is the script change that works and load all images:

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 if the platform is "MacOS" then   put "binfile:" & oDir  & "/html/" & pFile into xFile
    else put "binfile:"& oDir  & "/html/" & pFile into xFile

Of course, if mchttpd works fine in Linux with "binfile" instead of "file"
(still have not tested this change in Linux) then delete the if structure
and put only this line:

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put "binfile:"& oDir  & "/html/" & pFile into xFile

Al

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2018 11:07 am**

Interesting find Al.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2018 10:51 pm**

I suspect that modern browser behave different that
early internet browsers for security reasons and that
explain why images are not loaded automatically.

In our present day internet, if you want to open
any kind of image inside the browser, the server
or maybe the browser itself creates a a minimal
html wrapper, like this:

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<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<img max-width=100% height="auto" src="http://127.0.0.1:8080/myimage.png"></img>
</body>
</html>

Look the list of vulnerabilities created
by files that are misidentified:

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=mime

After i finish some pending work, maybe I could resume my previous
work in a Livecode based wikipedia reader. Maybe...

Al

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