title: Getting Skype status images from an HTTPS site
body: <p>I have a Rails 3 app where I'm trying to display a page with users and their respective Skype status. This is easy to do if the page is HTTP: just set a background url of an element to the image returned from <a href="http://mystatus.skype.com/mediumicon/USERNAME" rel="nofollow">http://mystatus.skype.com/mediumicon/USERNAME</a>.</p>
  
  <p>However, my site is HTTPS, and loading resources via HTTP from an HTTPS causes IE to choke. And Skype evidently doesn't provide an HTTPS version of the status icon.</p>
  
  <p>So I'm taking the approach of getting the Skype status server-side (i.e. in the controller) by calling the above URL with Net::HTTP. Then I can write JUST the image bytes back to the page without a problem using send_data(). But I can't figure out how to stream the image bytes back to the view along with all the other page data. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>