$Web Put Binary

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<section begin="desc" />$Web_Put_Binary: Add binary string to response buffer<section end="desc" />

$Web_Put_Bin sends a binary string to the client buffer.

Note: $Web_Put_Binary is a synonym for the $Web_Put_Bin function.

Syntax

<section begin="syntax" /> %RC = $Web_Put_Bin( bin_string ) <section end="syntax" />

$Web_Put_Bin is a callable $function (see Calling Sirius Mods $functions).

$Web_Put_Bin takes a single required string argument and returns a status code.

bin_string A "binary" string that is added to the client buffer without any translation. Since the client buffer is always sent to the browser without translation, the binary contents of bin_string will be received by the browser. Under Sirius Mods Version 6.7 and later, $Web_Put_Bin is longstring capable: it can send a longstring with a length greater than 255 bytes.
Code Meaning
0 Binary string sent to the client buffer.
-1 Invalid call, not a Web thread
-4 Missing argument

$Web_Put_Bin return codes

%X = $Web_Type('binary/jpeg') %X = $Web_Put_Bin( %COMPANYX_LOGO ) STOP

This sample shows a binary image in .jpg format being sent from a %variable to the client buffer (the image would have to be pretty small, given the 255 byte limitation on %variables).

Note that another way to send binary data is to store it in a Model 204 procedure and send it to the client using $Web_ProcSend.