Within the project that I am developing, I have to access images located outside the URL.

The folder that contains the images has a path:
/opt/www/images/

Apache has been set to:

<Location /images>
order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Location>

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Within the folder are subfolders that are identified by client id numbers.

I am using the CGI::Application Framework along with HTML::Template.

The problem is that I can open the image on a webpage, but all the body text vanishes. Looking in the source of the webpage, you can still see the body.

I have used the following code: 
# main.pm
...
    my $client_id = "73737";
    my $get_image = thumbs::get_thumbs($client_id);
    $content .= "<img src='".  $get_image ."'>";

    return $content;
}
...


# thumbs.pm
package thumbs;

use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI;

sub get_thumbs {
    my $client_id = shift;
    my $q = new CGI;

    my $path = "/opt/www/images/";
    my $file = "/img_1.png";

    my $image = $path ."". $client_id ."". $file;

    print $q->header(-type => 'image/png');

    open IMAGE, $image or die "Cannot open $image $!\n";
    binmode STDOUT;
    print <IMAGE>;
    close IMAGE;

    return;
}
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What am I doing wrong?

In reply to Getting an image but no body text by jtsceioa

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