This CGI script experiments with starting a TCP server connection on the fly to serve an image embedded in the page. I do not recommend this technique for production.
So, here's an image:
};
lsock = Socket.new(Socket::PF_INET, Socket::SOCK_STREAM, 0);
lsock.listen 1;
port = Socket.unpack_sockaddr_in(lsock.getsockname)[0];
imgthread = Thread.new {
begin
asock = ();
timeout(60) {
asock, * = lsock.accept;
};
imgfile = File.open IMAGE_NAME;
imgsize = imgfile.stat.size;
asock.print "HTTP/1.1 200 Ok\nContent-type: image/jpeg\n" +
"Content-length: " + imgsize.to_s + "\n\n";
while b = imgfile.read(16*1024);
asock.print b;
end;
asock.close;
rescue Timeout::Error;
end;
};
server_name = ENV["SERVER_NAME"] || "localhost";
print %{};
print %{
Goodbye for now. }; $>.flush; imgthread.join; __END__