rshoe:

You're not giving the complete URL for the image. You'll have to tell the browser the URL so it can ask for the image from the server in such a way that the server can find it. You probably don't want to give the actual path to the file, since web servers normally use a different directory as a root location.

Suppose your file is at /My/Stuff/www/images/tools/hammer.jpg and your server name is "www.MyTools.com", and it's treating /My/Stuff/www as the document root. Then you'll want to set the URL to "http://www.MyTools.com/images/tools/hammer.jpg".

Note: There may be more subtleties that I'm not aware of, as I don't write code for the WWW .... yet! (My new job is wanting me to do some, so I've been studying a bit.)

...roboticus

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

In reply to Re: Display an image from cgi by roboticus
in thread Display an image from cgi by rshoe

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