HTML Object SVG image does not display

Issue

I had an HTML Object tag like this:

<object class="someclass" id="someid" type="image/svg+xml" data="/relative/path/to/svg/file.svg">Your browser does not support SVG files, and so your visualization cannot dislpay</object>

This displayed my SVG image file fine. However, I wanted to move the SVG image file outside of the website root, so that users that do not have an account cannot see the file. So the data attribute would become a link to an intermediate page, which would construct the path to the SVG image and show it to the browser.

Now I have:

 <object class="someclass" id="someid" type="image/svg+xml" data="/some/intermediate/page?image=/parameter/file.svg">Your browser does not support SVG files, and so your visualization cannot dislpay</object>

However, this does not display the image. When I use an Img tag instead, it does display when I right click it and select 'view image'. I tried things such as urlencode the query part of the URL, urlencoding the entire string, replacing the question mark for %3F, switching between Object and Img tags, but it does not seem to work.

Thanks for the help!

Solution

The problem ended up being HTTP header information. SVG images have to be served as header('Content-type: image/svg+xml'), and not just as XML

Answered By - Arent