Disclaimer: I am not advocating that you try to break your company's security policy. They probably have their policy for a reason - and breaking this policy is likely to get you into all kinds of trouble. Think carefully about this before doing it.

However, in the interests of furthering discussion, if your browser sees the string <img src="/blah"> in a html document, it will attempt to make a separate http request to fetch the image - just as if you tried to type the address into your browser directly. This is therefore being blocked by the relevant firewall.

To get around this, you need to look at the content_type header that you get back from the remote request (see the earlier post by Joost), and send that content-type back to the browser.

Actually, to do this *properly* there are other headers that you would need to thing about (authentication and cookies being two good examples that come to mind). What you really want is a proxy server (eg squid, or apache with mod_proxy). However - if you have never set up such a thing before, I'd recommend either getting help, or at least reading the docs quite carefully, as open proxies on the internet are a bad thing (tm)

In reply to Re^3: Why is my image obtained by LWP displayed as garbage (i.e. plain/text)? by dtr
in thread Why is my image obtained by LWP displayed as garbage (i.e. plain/text)? by crontab

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