Hi,

I am trying to do a very simple thing of reading an image file (jpeg) into an HTML page from a perl cgi script. But for some reason when I click the html file I get a blank image. Why? I am running on Windows 98 OS. If someone could try this out practically and then give me details as to what is wrong in my program, I would really appreciate.

I have the following 3 files in my source directory from where I am running.

(1) myprogram.html

(2) myprogram.cgi

(3) picture.jpg

Here are the contents of my html file "myprogram.html" 

<HTML>
<head>
<title> Test page </title>
</head>
<BODY>
<IMG SRC = "myprogram.cgi">
</BODY>
</HTML>

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Following are the contents of my perl cgi program "myprogram.cgi" 

#!C:\Progra~1\Perl\bin\perl
use CGI; 
$co=new CGI;
BINMODE IMAGEHANDLE1;
open(IMAGEHANDLE1,"<picture.jpg") or die "filenot found";
$size1=(stat("picture.jpg"))[7];
read IMAGEHANDLE1,$data1,$size1;
close IMAGEHANDLE1 ;
print
$co->header(-type=>'image/jpeg'),
$data1;

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thanks

grao5 (grao5@hotmail.com)

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