Everyone who contributed, thank you. But I just wanted to put one
final note on this topic to "round out" the real issue and goal of my
original post.
My real goal was to "obfuscate" the links in my web pages to graphics
on an e-commerce supplier's web host. Their domain is different than
mine, so I didn't want hackers or other curious types investigating my
upline supplier by going to the root of the domain specified in the
"img src=" tag. I get a database from them with the name of the
graphic, and I have a set of "strings" in my scripts of directories
for different sizes of the same graphic, etc... so I put together the
URL with two parts, [URL directory "string"] & [graphic name].
When sending any text from the the buffer back to the IE browser, for
the rest of all buffer flushes, it is set into a mode that will
interpret binarywrites as "ascii"... so, even a small piece of html
before the binarywrite will cause the browser to show a bunch of
interpreted stuff on the screen... response.clear, gets rid of
everything, but I wanted to intermingle the html and by binarywrite.
I don't know of a contentType that would make this happen together.
Furthermore, writing the file to the disk is way too intensive for
just browsing my catalog pages full of graphics, BUT is great code for
page scraping and saving graphics.
Anyway... it dawned on me. duh. All I wanna' do is make sure they
don't know the domain of the graphic source, so...
I created an getImage.asp file. It gets two querystrings: Image, and
Size. Image is the image name, size is a short variable denoting the
directory on the web host (the complete url/[directory] that only I
KNOW). From a <img src="getImage.asp?image=[blah]&size=[blah]"
border=0> tag within the document one can integrate the graphic
because the browser is making separate http socket connections out to
the script. The script does the appropriate binarywrite of the
responsebody in the img tag container.
At first I thought I could "encrypt" the q-string and then that led me
to see that I didn't HAVE to put the whole domain URL on the q-string.
Other code in this topic would be very good for page scraping.
