Hello there. If anybody could be kind enough to help me here I would appreciate it. It's very simple. I have a html page 
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/formtest.pl">
<P>Enter a URL to retrieve: <INPUT NAME="name">
<P><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="GO!">
</FORM>
</body>
</html>

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and a perl handler 
#!/usr/bin/perl -T

use LWP::UserAgent;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI qw(:standard);
$url = param('name');
print header;
print start_html('My Remote Webpage Request Service');
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $res = $ua->get($url);
print $res->content;
print end_html;

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So, you enter a URL in the html page, and the perl retrieves it (well that's the idea).

If I enter a URL to a jpeg, the jpeg is displayed as garbage. An example line from what is returned to my browser is: 

gifGIF89anY1e!YMIEJ}c
+Q<sE<)I;
YJaRm9qޔ)QcyƵsƾ
+

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etc. What am I doing wrong? Thank you very much. Jason

In reply to Why is my image obtained by LWP displayed as garbage (i.e. plain/text)? by crontab

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