I’ve been working with our Esendex Email MMS service which forwards any inbound MMS picture messages to an email address. As the picture is MIME encoded I needed a quick way to check the image included.

Thanks to a post by Zmeeagain I found the very handy trick of pasting the Base64 encoded text into an HTML Image tag to quickly render the message in a web browser.

Simply create a new HTML file and paste your Base64 text replacing BASE64TEXT and ensure that the data: type reflects the MIME encoding type of the attached image (image/jpeg in this case):
<html><body><img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,BASE64TEXT"/></body></html>

Save the file as an HTML document and open in your favourite browser. Voila! Simples, hey?

 

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