# Writing tiff to a memory buffer

**URL:** <https://discourse.itk.org/t/writing-tiff-to-a-memory-buffer/970>\
**Category:** Engineering\
**Tags:** io\
**Created:** [June 1, 2018, 7:25am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/writing-tiff-to-a-memory-buffer/970 "2018-06-01T07:25:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![ocairncross](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/ocairncross/32/457_2.png) [@ocairncross](https://discourse.itk.org/u/ocairncross)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 7:25am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/writing-tiff-to-a-memory-buffer/970/1 "2018-06-01T07:25:16Z")

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Hello,

I’d like to write an image in tiff format to a memory buffer (not a file) so that I can pass it off to a server using libcurl. How do I go about this?

Thanks  
Ollie.