Image display firefox problem

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello everyone, I am having trouble displaying images only using the firefox browser. Apache 1.3 is the webserver running on localhost + Windows XP + ActivePerl 5.8. I am using the following code, but have tried many alternatives.

print <<HTML;

<html><head><title>My Program</title></head>

<img src="file:///C:/Sunset.jpg

</body></html>

HTML
This will work fine when I access the script using Internet Explore 6 (eg http://localhost/cgi-bin/myscript.pl , but when accessed from firefox the image is not displayed. I have typed the image location into the browsers which successfully display the image.
Any ideas/Suggestions? Thank you

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Re: Image display firefox problem by davido (Cardinal) on Jun 19, 2005 at 05:14 UTC
You're missing a `">` after `Sunset.jpg` ...not sure why IE wouldn't care about that. Another possibility might be to try clearing Firefox's cache and restarting it. Dave	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Image display firefox problem by polettix (Vicar) on Jun 19, 2005 at 10:11 UTC
You can use a HTML Validator to be sure that you're not missing trivial formatting errors in your HTML. BTW, are you the same of this node? Flavio perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf Don't fool yourself.	[reply]
Re: Image display firefox problem by Joost (Canon) on Jun 19, 2005 at 11:14 UTC
This could be a security measure; it's not very safe to let remote files refer to local ones (using file://). Also, this page would only work correctly on machines that have the Sunset.jpg file in the correct place. Can't you just move the image to the server? "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^2: Image display firefox problem by dorward (Curate) on Jun 19, 2005 at 12:04 UTC
Good point. Excuse me while I google... checkloaduri will disable file:// URLs on pages from a network (http: https: ftp:) source, for security reasons. - judging from my install of FireFox, this preference is switched on by default.	[reply]
Re: Image display firefox problem by cajun (Chaplain) on Jun 19, 2005 at 06:58 UTC
In addition to what davido said, press <shift> then click reload in your browser.	[reply]
Re: Image display firefox problem by bmann (Priest) on Jun 19, 2005 at 16:48 UTC
The solution is to put the image inside your webroot and request it via http. Firefox will not open a local file requested from a remote site for security reasons (Even though apache is running at localhost, firefox considers it "remote"). Details are here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_Issues_:_Links_to_Local_Pages_Don't_Work, along with their reasoning. There is also a workaround, if you still feel you need it.	[reply]
Re: Image display firefox problem by cees (Curate) on Jun 19, 2005 at 13:32 UTC
UPDATE: Looks like I was wrong here. Randal's got it right You have one too many slashes in your URL. The proper schema should be file://, and you have file:///. Now on unix machines, it always looks like there are three slashes in a row, because file URLs are usually absolute, hence you have the extra / for the root directory. Try the following instead: `<img src="file://C:/Sunset.jpg" />`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Image display firefox problem by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 19, 2005 at 13:51 UTC
No, the third slash is the host specifier, which is empty because it's "localhost". -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]