Re: JPEG Comments

"Dennis Marks" <denmarks (AT) none (DOT) net> wrote

I have been told that there is no way to access the JPEG comment field
using javascript. I have used a hex editor and can see the comment near
the beginning of the JPEG file. Is there any way to access the source
of a JPEG picture that has been loaded and then possibly extract and
manipulate the data to extract the comment?

Not using Javascript. Javascript only has access to the HTML dom tree, not
the actual binary data contained in the image.

Murray wrote on 08 mei 2004 in comp.lang.javascript:

"Dennis Marks" <denmarks (AT) none (DOT) net> wrote in message
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I have been told that there is no way to access the JPEG comment
field using javascript. I have used a hex editor and can see the
comment near the beginning of the JPEG file. Is there any way to
access the source of a JPEG picture that has been loaded and then
possibly extract and manipulate the data to extract the comment?

Not using Javascript. Javascript only has access to the HTML dom tree,
not the actual binary data contained in the image.

Not quite true.

Serverside code, either js or vbs, has access.

Clientside code, either js or vbs, has NOT.

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Dennis Marks wrote:

Too bad. The comment would be a great place to keep descriptive data
to be displayed with a picture.

There are a number of server-side image gallery applications which do
exactly this

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Matt Kruse
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