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

Wise monks, I'm parsing the urls of images from a page, and reusing it. The html I'm generating is fine, and the link is coming out the way I expect. If I copy and paste the source of the html my perl script generates, the page renders exactly as I expect. However, calling the script directly from the browser does not display the image.

Why?

One more clue, after I have loaded the images via creating the page as a .html doc locally, the script then loads the images correctly. Do I need to write the output to a file and redirect?

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Re: CGI, image loading
by robartes (Priest) on Dec 03, 2002 at 07:55 UTC
    Check whether your script sends a Content-Type header. Any self respecting browser will not treat HTML that does not have text/html as content as in fact being HTML. You should be printing something like: 
    print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

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    Also note that it is better to use CGI or die; :).

    CU
    Robartes-

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      That's a learned that learned very early, but thanks for the reply. I have also tried using cgi, and not; no difference
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Re: CGI, image loading
by dingus (Friar) on Dec 03, 2002 at 10:12 UTC
    Do you perhaps fail to make your URLs absolute URLs?

    If you show us your display code we may be able to see any obvious bugs.

    Dingus

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