in reply to GD newbee question

As Mr. Muskrat suggests, this is more to do with your appreciation of web server layout and permissions than Perl. If I run your script right here and then tail the error.log, I get: 
[Sun Nov  2 06:36:56 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] file permissions
+ deny server execution: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/image.png

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If, however, I modify the open line to write a file in the document root and, in the HTML section, change the img src to look like this: 
<img src="/image.png" alt="a red circle" />

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...I get a red circle, which I guess is what you are after.

MB

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Re: Re: GD newbee question
by Plankton (Vicar) on Nov 03, 2003 at 15:51 UTC
    Ah! Thanks!
    I changed these lines ... 
    open( FH, '>image.png' ) or die "Can't image.png:$!\n";
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<img src='image.png'>

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    ... to ... 
    open( FH, '>../public_html/image.png' ) or die "Can't image.png:$!\n";
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<img src='/image.png'>

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    ... and now it works! Thanks.

    Plankton: 1% Evil, 99% Hot Gas.
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