Committed.  I changed the age/locked gallery detection so that it 
catches these even if it's a full image download. I don't see 
permission to download a full image as implicit permission to see an 
otherwise locked gallery.

Changes have been made in CVS for this ticket:

http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/ansel/lib/api.php?rt=horde&r1=1.132&r2=1.133&ty=u

I corrected _getImageData to be bidirectional and updated PHPDoc.

IMO, if it's callable via the api, it's callable via jsonrpc and 
xmlrpc so it should be supported and this won't work unless it is 
encoded.
I've been making http requests for the image data whenever I've needed 
to do this - I do this in my iPhoto plugin for example, to get the the 
gallery default images, but I can see the usefulness of having this 
method as well.  I think we should be able to specify the encoding we 
want when requesting the image - the reverse of how the upload works, 
where we need to specify the encoding that we are using during upload.
That might be one of the reasons that I can't get any image data from 
a webdav mount of a remote ansel install...

An example of full RW implementation as a VFS driver.

Fixed...
I doubt anyone will request image raw data directly or we can encode 
it if you prefer. But we need a way to make it accessible via the API 
to have a full read-write api. OTOH even the browse call sends raw 
data directly.

1) The return datatype in the signature for getImageContent is incorrect



2) All parameters with default values in a function signature must 
follow all parameters that do not have a default value.



3) Your not checking age restrictions or password protected galleries 
before returning the image data.



That being said, I'm not so sure this api method is a good idea - will 
sening the raw, binary image data actually work over XML/RPC or 
JSON/RPC?

- fix fatal error in removeGallery when getGallery returns and error 
and we try to access an non defined method in the error message 
composition

- fix galleryExists signature

- fix warnings in saveImage regarding type of image content passed

- added method to return image view raw data