Q&A for How to View Source Code

To be able to view the source code of a webpage under Safari, you first need to enable the Developer menu: Click on Safari menu > Preferences > Advanced. Check "Show Develop menu in menu bar" Close the Preferences window Go to the Develop menu > Show Page Source

Right-click on the image and select "Inspect" from the available options.

Add the image location on your computer to the source code. Make sure the file is available and then run.

You need to find the image file and download it first. You can then look at its "source code" by opening it in a text editor. But it will usually appear to you as some unreadable combination of characters. The first reason for this is that the image uses binary numbers, and the text editor interprets each byte as a character with that Unicode/ASCII/encoding-you-use value. A solution to that is hexdump. The second reason is that many image formats compress the image somehow. So not every number combination actually represents a pixel. So either inform yourself about your image's format and how to decompress it, or use a format that doesn't compress in the first place, like PNM, not like PNG.

There are two things that may have happened: 1. Forced server side redirect: There's nothing to do about it. 2. Client side redirect: Make a hyperlink to the Web page, then right click the link and download the file. Open with a text editor.