Facebook profile picture request i.e. "http://graph.facebook.com/me/picture" - facebook

Question

When I do a request for a profile picture, mine in this case I receive some kind of encoded string in my HttpResponseHandler. The code below is the request for my profile picture.
private static AsyncHttpClient client = new AsyncHttpClient();
client.get("http://graph.facebook.com/1206433/picture", fbPictureHandler);
The code below is my handler to retrieve a response. I get the response as a string, but I am not sure what to do with this response object. I have tried converting to a byte array and writing to "file.jpg" this hasnt worked. My main question is what do I do with this response object?
private static AsyncHttpResponseHandler fbPictureHandler = new AsyncHttpResponseHandler ()
{
#Override
public void onStart() {
Log.d(TAG,"started picture handler");
}
#Override
public void onSuccess(String response) {
//Not sure what to do here, have been unable to do anything with this Byte //array
byte[] imageBackground = response.getBytes();
}
#Override
public void onFailure(Throwable error) {
Log.d(TAG, "unable to retrieve picture");
error.printStackTrace();
}
#Override
public void onFinish() {
Log.d(TAG,"Finished picture handler");
}
};
This is the PrintString of the response object
11-29 19:42:12.640: D/Yatter Facebook(3551): ÿØÿà��JFIF������������ÿþ��;CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 95
ANy help is greatly appreciated and hopefully this can help others.
Thank you,

Answer 1

Use the following request instead of the one that you are issuing
http://graph.facebook.com/1206433?fields=picture
This will return a JSON string to you in the following format which contains the original path to the profile image.
{
"picture": "http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/260615_1206433_140418666_q.jpg"
}
Parse this string to get the path of "picture" and use it in your code to get the picture.
Here is a sample request example
NOTE : http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/260615_1206433_140418666_q.jpg is obtained by parsing the JSON string in the first step.
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/260615_1206433_140418666_q.jpg");
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream();
pictureBox1.Image = Image.FromStream(stream);
This will load the image to a picture box in a windows form application.
If you need anymore help let me know.

Answer 2

you can use ?redirect=false follow '/picture' for get direct link
http://graph.facebook.com/+facebookid+/picture?redirect=false
and response contain url static link (json format)
{"data":{
"url":"https:\/\/fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net\/hprofile-ak-frc1\/t1.0-1\/c126.33.409.409\/s50x50\/551571_4079894629426_190963543_n.jpg","is_silhouette":false}
}