diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5f4486cc2ee7c0296e89b72d0a2f13dccdcc40a7..4d9e05e6b00596a19c154ae55f31f247f8087eff 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /atdb/logs/
+R:\source\django\atdb-ldv\atdb\logs\atdb.log
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/atdb/taskdatabase/services/algorithms.py b/atdb/taskdatabase/services/algorithms.py
index bdcdc4ced9edf9d324f601add44eceb1d14b0047..00aba5adc5c05d989e11f6c79561ad09d792b335 100644
--- a/atdb/taskdatabase/services/algorithms.py
+++ b/atdb/taskdatabase/services/algorithms.py
@@ -711,7 +711,12 @@ def construct_inspectionplots(task,source='task_id'):
                 results += '<tr><td><a href="' + url + '" target="_blank">'+ basename + '</a></td></tr>'
 
                 if basename.endswith('png'):
-                    results += '<tr><td><a href="' + url + '" target="_blank"><img width="800" src="' + url + '" alt="' + basename + '"/></a></td></tr>'
+                    # retrieve the url and add the binary data to the html
+                    response = requests.get(url)
+                    content_as_string = base64.b64encode(response.content).decode("utf-8")
+                    img_html = '<img width="800" src = "data:image/png;base64,' + content_as_string + '">'
+                    results += '<tr><td><a href="' + url + '" alt="' + basename + '" target="_blank">' + img_html + '</a></td></tr>'
+                    #results += '<tr><td><a href="' + url + '" target="_blank"><img width="800" src="' + url + '" alt="' + basename + '"/></a></td></tr>'
 
                 plot_files.append(basename)
 
@@ -749,14 +754,13 @@ def construct_inspectionplots(task,source='task_id'):
                         results += '<tr><td><a href="' + url + '" target="_blank">' + basename + '</a></td></tr>'
 
                         if basename.endswith('png'):
-                            # retrieve and evaluate the url first
-                            #logger.info('retrieve '+url)
+                            # retrieve the url and add the binary data to the html
                             response = requests.get(url)
                             content_as_string = base64.b64encode(response.content).decode("utf-8")
                             img_html = '<img width="800" src = "data:image/png;base64,' + content_as_string + '">'
 
 #                            results += '<tr><td><a href="' + url + '" target="_blank"><img width="800" src="' + url + '" alt="'+basename+'"/></a></td></tr>'
-                            results += '<tr><td><a href="' + url + '" target="_blank">' + img_html+ '</a></td></tr>'
+                            results += '<tr><td><a href="' + url + '" alt="'+basename+'" target="_blank">' + img_html+ '</a></td></tr>'
 
                         plot_files.append(plot_file)