Ok here's where I am now... I was writing a hotlink bypass script (not to be abused) and I've modified your script to suit that purpose: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP ();

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n<html><body>no url given\n" unless l
+ength $ENV{QUERY_STRING};

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $request = HTTP::Request->new('GET', $ENV{QUERY_STRING} );
my $response = $ua->request($request, \&callback);

sub callback {
   my ($data, $response, $protocol) = @_;

   unless ($response->{'callback_first'}) {
      $response->{'callback_first'} = 1;
      my $content_type = join('; ', $response->content_type());
      print("Content-Type: $content_type\n");
      print("\n");
   }

   print($data);
}

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This is probably nothing new to you, but anyways if put on a web server with the name "file", then visiting the url: 
www.mywebserver.org/cgi-bin/file?http://www.geocities.com/myhome/me.jp
+g

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will enable the geocities file to be hotlinked (for use off ebay etc)

HOWEVER, what I see happening is that when I save the above file (which should be called me.jpg) it actually gets sent to me with the name file.jpg.
Any idea on how to make the script preserve the original filename?

In reply to Re^2: how to pipe url back to stdout as stream by Anonymous Monk
in thread how to pipe url back to stdout as stream by redss

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