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That would almost work, provided you'd send the correct headers:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use strict;

use CGI ':all';

my $q = new CGI;

my $imagedir = "/path/to/images";

my $file = $q->path_info();
$file =~ s!^.*/!!gi;

print header("image/jpeg"),
      do { local *ARGV; @ARGV = "$imagedir/$file"; <> };
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Be sure to use taint checking on your path info, as you wouldn't want anyone to view files they shouldn't be viewing... :)

[ ar0n ]

In reply to (ar0n) Re: Not Strictly A perl question. by ar0n
in thread Not Strictly A perl question. by kb2yht

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