Hi, I'm trying to send existing images (not generated) to a browser. The difference is, is the html code contains the <img ..> call, which calls a cgi, which then sends the image to the browser. The idea behind it, is to keep people from externally linking to the images. Thus far I have gotten nothing to work. The closest I have gotten was with an error from the server stating that the image file had a malformed headder (hmm its an image!).

So to help clairify:
In the html:
<img border="0" src="/cgi-bin/my.cgi?image=images/some.jpg" width="368
+"
height="275">

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In the cgi/perl, I tried:
print "Location: /cgi-bin/$in{image}\n\n";
# (I get malformed headder, but only on image files, zip or exe 
# files are sent (if I don't call using <img ..>))

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And:
print "/cgi-bin/$in{image}"; # (I get nothing, no image, no error)

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I have also tried using Content-type: headders, but they as well, do not help.

How can I get the cgi/perl to send the image correctly without using ssi or putting the <img ..> code in the cgi/perl file?

20050419 Cleaned up by Corion: Put code in code tags.

In reply to Sending an image to a browser by Delusional

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