It seems cgi-bin blocks images.
Putting a document in the cgi-bin tree is an instruction to your webserver that it is supposed to execute the file, not just serve it up. This leaves two general choices: put your images in another branch of the www tree (e.g. html) or put your images in cgi-bin/images or equivalent, and use a script like the following to serve them up: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use CGI;

my $cgi = CGI->new;

my ($id) = $cgi->param('id') =~ /^(\w+)$/;
my $filename = "$id.png";

my $content = eval {
    open my $fh, '<', "images/$filename" or die "Open failure: $!";
    binmode $fh;
    <$fh>;
}

print $cgi->header(-type  =>  'image/png',
                   -expires   =>  '+1h',
                   -content_disposition=>"inline; filename=$filename"
                   );
if ($content) {
    print $content
} else {
    open my $fh, 'images/none.png' or die;
    binmode $fh;
    print <$fh>;
}

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Note that I've assumed all images are in one directory, and that id's are all word characters (alphanumerics or underscore). It is very easy to make a script that looks a lot like this to will serve up any file on your file system, so pay attention to what paths you let through.

#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

In reply to Re^3: Display an image from cgi by kennethk
in thread Display an image from cgi by rshoe

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