I was reading HEX Embedded Images and decided to try some of it. I took this script (from BBQ)

open IMG, "foo.gif"
       or die "Couldn't open image: $!\n";
binmode(IMG);
undef $/;
$image = <IMG>;
$hex = unpack("H*", $image);
close IMG;
while ($txt = substr($hex,0,32,'')) {
       print "'$txt'\n";
       }
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and made:

use strict;
use DBI qw(:sql_types);

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:Oracle:host=172.16.21.16;sid=xxxx", 'xxxxx
+x', 'xxxxxxxx') or die "Connecting : $DBI::errstr\n";

open IMG, "$ARGV[0]"
       or die "Couldn't open $ARGV[0]: $!\n";

binmode(IMG);
undef $/;
$image = <IMG>;
$hex = unpack("H*", $image);
close IMG;
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO pics (TITLE, HEX_PIC) VALUES (?, 
+?)")or die "$DBI::errstr\n";
$sth->bind_param( 1, 'pic1');
$sth->bind_param( 2, $hex, SQL_LONGVARCHAR);
$sth->execute();
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to upload a gif to hex into the database.

Then I looked at this code for outputing:

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

sub Image {
  my $image =
    '4749463839610f001000a2ff00848684' .
    'dfe0dfc6c7c6c0c0c000000000000000' .
    '000000000021f90401000003002c0000' .
    '00000f00100040034048baacf3608049' .
    'a98824ca0aae78d9b375a4164a92470e' .
    '016a8dde10721c48dfc029ee528b0ac0' .
    'e06717121a8132cd6729b4ed8cc4c891' .
    '97a45a09b286569100003b00';

  return(pack("H*",$image));
}
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So I modified it to look like this:

use DBI;
use strict;

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:Oracle:host=172.16.21.16;sid=xxxxxx", 'xxx
+xx', 'xxxxx') or die "Connecting : $DBI::errstr\n";
$dbh->{LongReadLen} = 512 * 1024;

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("Select TITLE, HEX_PIC from pics");
$sth->execute();
(my $name, my $image) = $sth->fetchrow_array; 


my $output = pack("H*", $image);
print "Content-type: image/gif\n\n";
print $output;
open(FH, ">outfile.gif");
binmode(FH);
undef $/;
print FH pack("H*",$image);
close FH;
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When I run this I get a broken link. But if I open the out file it looks correct. It is the same pic I inserted into the DB. I am sure it is probably something really easy that I am not seeing. I am running this with ActiveState's ActivePerl on a WinNT system. And I am trying to view it with IE 5.5 and Opera.

--BigJoe

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