Re: How to display the response from a get request to a browser?

You need to return 'Content-type: image/jpeg' in your headers. Some clients will break with your Content-Length: 0 as well.

If you use CGI; it can help make alot of these tasks easier, but content-type is what you need to fix this problem. Text works fine because text/html is the browser's default.

HTH

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Re^2: How to display the response from a get request to a browser? by elwarren (Priest) on Oct 27, 2004 at 16:12 UTC
Nevermind, I just realized this is client-side, not server-side. If your goal is just to display images from webservers, you might want to check out the feh tool. It kicks the butt of display. You can point it at a url and it will handle all of the download and display. It also has a param to automatically refresh/reload after x seconds. I use it to fullscreen a remote webcam on my setup at home and it's brilliant. HTHM	[reply]
Re^3: How to display the response from a get request to a browser? by unb (Initiate) on Oct 27, 2004 at 17:16 UTC
ok, I went the feh website and downloaded the first one in the download list: Get feh-1.2.7.tar.gz here. now, where should I put the downloaded .tar file. and how do I use it the perl code. do I store the resulted set of charatere in a file and pass it the feh or what. Thank you for the effort. unb	[reply]