Hi Monks, This is driving me crazy. I'm trying to make a (very) simple CGI program that will open a GIF image from a directory, and print it to STDOUT so that I can call it from an <IMG SRC="thumb.pl?imagenumber=3"> type tags. It seems to work, but for about half of the GIF images I try to read, only ~half of the GIF is displayed, and sometimes that last line of the GIF looks garbled. It looks like it is running into a binary character in the GIF that makes it quit for some reason. Here's the barebones of my code: 
open ($myimage, "$imagelocation") or die "cannot open";

print "Content-type:  image/gif\n\n";

while (<$myimage>) {
   print;
}

close $myimage;

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simple, right? I can't figure it out because it works for *some* images but not all... any wisdom? Thanks.

In reply to weird GIF problem by roadnottaken

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