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I need to view the source of a webpage. This web page is a plain text page with some text regarding an error. But the page's content type is set to image/jpeg. If I visit the page in Internet Explorer or Firefox, the view source option is greyed out. How can I view the source of pages with content types not set to text/html?

Edit: This page is not actually an image, it is a plain text page with the content type of an image.

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  • rasheed.kumar, one of the reasons you may not be able to edit your own posts is because you're still unregistered (and/or accessing this from another place). Sign up to Superuser and follow the procedures written in the Help Center to merge this question with your registered account.
    – Doktoro Reichard
    Commented Apr 26, 2014 at 22:50
  • Click somewhere in the page. Use Ctrl-A to select all. Ctrl-C to copy. Paste into Notepad or similar editor. That assumes it really -is- plaintext and just the content-type is incorrect, though I'm not sure how you can know for sure, if you can't view the source.
    – Debra
    Commented Apr 27, 2014 at 17:27

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You can't. On the serverside, (probably using php or asp), the image is generated and outputted.

As a result, you directly get an image, and an image does not have a textual source. For that raeson, you can't select any text either.

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Using Chrome you can type (in the address bar) 

view-source:www.sample.com/image.jpg

And it will show you the source.

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