Hello again,

I am working on a class project involving the use of the GD module and CGI and have run into a bit of a brick wall.

In order to understand how to modify remote images I stole the following code from this tutorial the put in some ‘my’ statements and put in my own URL.

now I am getting a 500 error with the following message in the error log:

gd-jpeg: JPEG library reports unrecoverable error: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x64 0x7 Can’t call method “colorResolve” on an undefined value at /my/perl/l/r/my.cgi line 7.

Premature end of script head /my/perl/l/r/my.cgi

#!/opt/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI ':standard';
use GD;

my $image = GD::Image->newFromJpegData("http://www.funnyandjokes.com/p
+ictures/images/bush_lord-of-the-rings.jpg");
my $black = $image->colorResolve(0,0,0);
$image->string(gdGiantFont,2,10,"Eat More Hobbits!",$black);
open(FILE, ">text1.jpg") || die "Cannot open text1.jpg: $!\n";
print FILE $image->jpeg;

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Could someone please clarify what is happening and tell me how to get this to work?

Thank you for your help

-mox

In reply to Error log clarification needed... by chinamox

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