images.md

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Serving Images

Basic Directory Set-up

First let your urls extend beyond images:

import web

urls = (
'/images/(.*)', 'images' #this is where the image folder is located....
)

Basic Image Class

Now create the class that will handle them:

import os
class images:
    def GET(self,name):
        ext = name.split(".")[-1] # Gather extension
        
        cType = {
            "png":"images/png",
            "jpg":"images/jpeg",
            "gif":"images/gif",
            "ico":"images/x-icon"            }

        if name in os.listdir('images'):  # Security
            web.header("Content-Type", cType[ext]) # Set the Header
            return open('images/%s'%name,"rb").read() # Notice 'rb' for reading images
        else:
            raise web.notfound()