madtoperl: it's a pity you didn't google this before you posted, otherwise you might have noticed this livejournal entry from "timwi" a few years ago that had the exact same problem (and nearly the exact same code, and wording, of your question).

It's reproduced here for your convenience:

Timwi (timwi) wrote in perl,
@ 2004-10-21 00:11:00
    
Continued problems with binary files
Dear hackers again,

thanks for your hints in the previous entry. However, I'm still having
+ problems here.

How do I simply load a file into memory? Again, without corrupting any
+ line endings?

I've tried this:
#!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe
use strict;
print "Content-Type: image/jpeg\n\n";
local $/ = undef;
open F, 'C:\Temp\temp.jpg';
binmode F;
my $content = <F>;
close F;
print $content;
and this produces a corrupt response. What is the correct way of loadi
+ng a binary file? Thanks for any help in advance.

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--chargrill 
s**lil*;  $*=join'',sort split q**;  s;.*;grr; &&s+(.(.)).+$2$1+; $; =
qq-$_-;s,.*,ahc,;$,.=chop for split q,,,reverse;print for($,,$;,$*,$/)

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In reply to Re: Binary File Load error? by chargrill
in thread Binary File Load error? by madtoperl

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