Dear monks, it's 12:30am here and I am having a "brain fart". I couldn't work out why the CGI script below does not display the image properly. Basically I want the CGI script to push a jpeg image to the web browser. But when I run it from the browser, the IE6 browser just 'hangs', I can see it's waiting for something. The script works when invoked from command-line though, I can see the content-type header and the image that follows. Can someone please help me to spot what's going wrong in my script? Thanks a lot in advance.
#!E:/Perl/bin/perl.exe -w
use strict;
use Bytes;
use CGI;

my $cgi = new CGI;
#my $cgi_cust = $cgi->param("cust");
#my $cgi_bill = $cgi->param("bill");
my $cgi_cust = "Telstra";
my $cgi_bill = "telstra-2003-07-28.jpg";

die unless defined $cgi_cust && defined $cgi_bill;

my $root = "E:/appdoc/Internet Banking/Bills & Notices";

my $img;

# load the image into memory
open IMG, "<", "$root/$cgi_cust/$cgi_bill" or die;
binmode IMG;
seek IMG, 0, 2;
my $size = tell IMG;
seek IMG, 0, 0;
sysread IMG,$img,$size;
close IMG;

if (defined $img) {
    binmode STDOUT;
    print $cgi->header( -type=>'image/jpeg');
    print $img;  # I think something is doggy here
} else {
    print $cgi->header, "<HTML><BODY><P>IMAGE NOT FOUND</P></BODY></HT
+ML>\n";
}

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In reply to Image display problem with CGI script by Roger

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