Nodejs serve base64 as Image

Question

I am trying to serve a base64 string as an image with image/png headers. The headers are being set properly but the images are not being shown all I can see is a blank screen. here is the code:

request('someCustomLink', function (error, response, body) {
// someCustomLink gives the base64 string
        var img = new Buffer(body, 'base64');
        res.writeHead(200, {
            'Content-Type': 'image/png',
            'Content-Length': img.length
        });
        res.end(img);         
});

this is the link that I followed to arrive at this solution.

Any help will be appreciated.

EDIT Here are the response headers from my someCustomLink (it might help in understanding the problem betr)

Accept-Ranges:bytes
Content-Length:128778
Content-Type:image-jpeg
Date:Thu, 21 Dec 2017 06:03:52 GMT
ETag:"edc04d469779108860478b361b7427d7"
Last-Modified:Mon, 11 Dec 2017 08:54:32 GMT
Server:AmazonS3
x-amz-id-2:QlR39g0vC5CeOo6fdKzX9uFB+uiOtj61c0LKW2rQLcCPWllcKyfbpg93Yido+vZfzMzB3lmhbNQ=
x-amz-request-id:3EC77634D9A05371

This is the get req

var request = require('request').defaults({ encoding: null });

app.get('/thumb/:thumbLink', function(req, res) {


        request('https://s3.amazonaws.com/my-trybucket/projectImages/'+req.params.thumbLink, function (error, response, body) {
            //console.log('error:', error); // Print the error if one occurred
            //console.log('statusCode:', response && response.statusCode); // Print the response status code if a response was received
            //console.log('body:', body); // Print the HTML for the Google homepage.
            var img = new Buffer(body, 'base64');
            res.writeHead(200, {
                'Content-Type': 'image/png'

            });
            res.end(img);
        });
    });

-Thanks

Answer 1

The response that you are getting contains data:image/png;base64,. You have remove this before creating the Buffer. See example below

request('https://s3.amazonaws.com/my-trybucket/projectImages/e31492f7314837a22a64395eee7cedfd', function(error, response, body) {
    var img = new Buffer(body.split(',')[1], 'base64');
    res.writeHead(200, {
      'Content-Type': 'image/png',
      'Content-Length': img.length 
    });
    res.end(img);
})