Returning images through AWS API Gateway

Question

I\'m trying to use AWS API Gateway as a proxy in front of an image service. I\'m able to get the image to come through but it gets displayed as a big chunk of ASCII because

Answer 1

I was trying to format a string to be returned w/o quotes and discovered the Integration Response functionality. I haven't tried this fix myself, but something along these lines should work:

• Go to the Method Execution page of your Resource,
• click on Integration Response,
• expand Method Response Status 200,
• expand Mapping Templates,
• click "application/json",
• click the pencil next to Output Passthrough,
• change "application/json" to "image/png"

Hope it works!