Friends,

I am learning about GD.pm and CGI programming and I tried this ... 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
###
###
use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw /fatalsToBrowser/;

my $out = new CGI;


use GD;

# create a new image
my $im = new GD::Image(100,100);

# allocate some colors
my $white = $im->colorAllocate(255,255,255);
my $black = $im->colorAllocate(0,0,0);
my $red = $im->colorAllocate(255,0,0);
my $blue = $im->colorAllocate(0,0,255);

# make the background transparent and interlaced
$im->transparent($white);
$im->interlaced('true');

# Put a black frame around the picture
$im->rectangle(0,0,99,99,$black);

# Draw a blue oval
$im->arc(50,50,95,75,0,360,$blue);

# And fill it with red
$im->fill(50,50,$red);

#write to image.png
open( FH, '>image.png' ) or die "Can't image.png:$!\n";
# make sure we are writing to a binary stream
binmode FH;

# Convert the image to PNG and print it on standard output
print FH $im->png;
close FH;
print   $out->header( 'text/html' );
print <<HTML;
<html>
<head><title>GD test</title></head>
<body>
<img src='image.png'>
</body>
</html>
HTML

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When I run from the command line I get this ... 
~/cgi-bin/GD$ ./GDtest.pl
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<html>
<head><title>GD test</title></head>
<body>
<img src='image.png'>
</body>
</html>

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But when I execute the CGI with my browser all I get is broken image?
Can anyone give me a pointer or two?
Thanks

Plankton: 1% Evil, 99% Hot Gas.

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