Aquilae:

LWP lets you talk with servers over the network, it doesn't have anything to do with the browser. If you want the browser to display the images, I'd suggest one of:

• Use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox to drive a Firefox browser, if you're on a linux machine.
• Write your program in Javascript, so you can have it load the appropriate objects into a browser window.
• Create a website where you can direct the browser to the links you want them to see.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

Roboticus - I am not on a linux machine. Does that mean WWW::Mechanize is going to be useless to me?

I managed to write some small code but I really do not know which way to go with it. Sadly, I am completely unfamiliar with mechanize so this is what I have come up with:

use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $url = "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Blogscope-log
+o-simple.jpg";
#my $cookie_jar;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get($url);

$mech->success() or die "Can't fetch the Requested page";
my $val = $mech->content;
print $val;
[download]

$val ends up being that same binary nonsense. I took a look at the Image function but it looks like that just scrapes the current page and finds all images and assigns them to an array - I am actually providing a link to the image itself so it doesn't look like that would work.

Thanks again!

Aquilae:

I don't know enough about WWW::Mechanize to determine whether it would be useless to you, though I suspect that's the case. What's the "bigger picture" description of your task? Perhaps someone may have an alternative that suits you. For example, if you're trying to display the image automatically with requiring it to be in a web browser, then one of the graphical toolkits may be of some use.

I just looked at |cpan.org and searched for "IE" and it came up with a few hits, like Win32::IE::Slideshow, Wx::ActiveX::IE. I can't offer any recommendations, as I haven't tried automating IE with perl. Trawling through the various CPAN modules may help you find something you can use.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

"I took a look at the Image function but it looks like that just scrapes the current page and finds all images and assigns them to an array ...."

So then foreach... the image array thru code (not included and neither are the batteries) that (if they're .jpgs) spits (choose one) links|$arr[n] out to (choose one) an|the browser.


Questions containing the words "doesn't work" (or their moral equivalent) will usually get a downvote from me unless accompanied by:

1. code
2. verbatim error and/or warning messages
3. a coherent explanation of what "doesn't work actually means.

check Ln42!

What I am ultimately trying to do is make several HTTP requests to read in and print multiple images to the browser so that they appear on screen.

How are you calling your script? via an <img> tag in html? If thats the case, before you print the content you need to print the content type. I see this in your code:

You're setting a header in your lwp request, which is unnecessary. You should replace that line with:

So you can tell the client that requested your script's output the content type of the output it will receive. Although without more information it seems like it would make sense to just have your image pull right from the remote server: