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What kind of image file format does the Google Charts QR code generator use?

If you use the google charts qr code generator you get html output that looks like this

<img src="https://chart.googleapis.com/chartcht=qr&amp;chs=500x500&amp;=Hello+world&amp;choe=UTF-8">`

To me that does not look look like a data URI and it has no filename extension either.

What kind of image format is this?

Solution

  • PNG. It doesn't have the .png file extension, but it does have the image/png MIME type:

    enter image description here

    When loading the image, the browser receives the following header:

    content-type:image/png

    This is what lets the browser know that it's a PNG.