Hello,

I was wondering how I could display an image with a CGI program? What I did was...
Using ms-paint, I made a one pixel .gif image and saved it to a file.
Then I wrote a simple perl/cgi program... 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw/:all/;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

my $length = 50;
binmode STDOUT;

print <<HTML;

<table>
    <tr>
        <td><img src='/cgi-bin/pixel.gif' height='20' width='$length' 
+alt='test'/></td>
    </tr>
</table>

HTML

[download]


A broken image tag was displayed. I also tried 'image/gif' for the 'Content-type' but the result was the same. The image file is in the cgi-bin directory.

Thank you.

In reply to Display an image with a CGI program? by Anonymous Monk

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