How do I display a jpeg in perl to HTML

villa has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Perl Monks,
Can anyone help me show me how do I display a jpeg
to my HTML form using the below code.
I've tried several ways and no luck displaying a jpeg.
I chmod 644 to jpeg and still no luck...

In what directory show I locate my jpeg.
I've positioned it under the /www and cgi-bin directroys but
no luck. Any hints:)
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print << "END_OF_REPLY";


Content-type: text/html

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<body bgcolor=\"blue\" text=\"yellow">
<TITLE>THANKYOU!! if no email entered </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BR><BR><BR>
<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Thankyou $name !</H1>
<BR>
<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Next time....</H1>
<BR>
<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Please leave us your email. :-(</H1>
<BR>

</HTML>
END_OF_REPLY
}
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Re: How do I display a jpeg in perl to HTML by jepri (Parson) on Dec 14, 2001 at 22:34 UTC
Images are retrieved by your browser as separate documents. You need to place a `<img src="http://url.to.jpeg/goes/here.jpg">` in your document and you need to have a webserver serving that picture (you can check by pasting the URL in directly). Have a look at how other pages on the net do it. ____________________ Jeremy I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How do I display a jpeg in perl to HTML by kwoff (Friar) on Dec 14, 2001 at 23:10 UTC
One note: don't leave blank space above the 'Content-type' header. Another thing: if your CGI scripts are separate from the HTML (usually they are -- say, ScriptAlias of /cgi-bin and DocumentRoot of /usr/local/apache/htdocs), you have to be careful what "base" the image URL is relative to. You might have to put something like `... <HEAD> <BASE HREF="http://${hostname}${baseurl}"> ...` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: How do I display a jpeg in perl to HTML by impossiblerobot (Deacon) on Dec 15, 2001 at 03:07 UTC
To elaborate on what kwoff said: Some web servers are set up to attempt to execute any file located in the cgi-bin directory. In that case, you'll have to put any images under your normal HTML directory, then (as kwoff mentioned) reference them in your script from your document root (or with a full URL). Impossible Robot	[reply]
Re: How do I display a jpeg in perl to HTML by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Dec 14, 2001 at 22:34 UTC
No magic. Just print an image tag, it's only html ;-) After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]