I wrote a simple script to log all visitors IP addresses and embedded the calling of the script in an image tag. However when I visit the page the script is never executed.

Here is the code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

$file = "/home/master/webroot/perlskripts/ip.log";

if (-e $file) {
   open(lg, ">>$file") || die "Can't open $file!\n";
   print lg "User from ".$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}." logged on\n";
   close(lg);
}else{
   $create = `touch $file`;
   $chmod = `chmod u+rw $file`;
   open(lg, ">>$file") || die "Can't open $file!\n";
   print lg "User from ".$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}." logged on\n";
   close(lg);
}

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Here is how I call it in my web page: 
 <tr bgcolor="#220E50">
  <td>
   <img src="/var/www/cgi-bin/remote_address.pl" height="0" width="0" 
+alt="[script]">
  </td>
 </tr>

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Any ideas as to why this would not be executed. I am pretty sure the image embedding method is valid. Alos when I run the script via command line it does what it is suppose to do.

In reply to Simple script not being executed when html page loads. by ZiaTioN

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