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Federico P.3
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

preview my files in iframe using http core api

Hi, i am developing an application that let user browse his file inside my web application. I'd like to let user preview his file inside an iframe of such webapp as such as it is done in dropbox ...
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Federico P.3's avatar
Federico P.3
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Hi Gregory,

thank you for your reply. I have tryed (with thumbnail endpoint) to put raw data as src of my iframe with no luck (got an ampty iframe). I can see, in the first part of binary data, a JFIF string so i think this data is realyy a JPEG.

I wrote something like

<iframe src="data:image/*;base64,{{Raw Binary Data}}"/></iframe>

with no luck.

Also i would like to understand if binary data returned from preview endpoint would be correctly rendered inside a normal browser (i am thinking at word documents).

Thanks

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