Re^5: showing an image downloaded with LWP::Simple

A couple of points:

ugly hacks aside, you can't just dump image data inside HTML, even if you do it from a script. You should use img (or object) tags.
There is no link in your HTML so I don't know what link you're talking about.
If you want to show a remote image, what's wrong with <img src="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT06/refresh/AL0606W5+gif/144631W_sm.gif"> ?
Please read writeup formatting tips - or at least use <code> tags around your code.

If you really really want to, use something like this: (in your html): <img src="/path/to/script.cgi"> and (in your script.cgi):

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
print "Content-type: image/gif\n\n";
binmode STDOUT;
getprint "http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT06/refresh/AL0606W5
++gif/144631W_sm.gif";
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Re^6: showing an image downloaded with LWP::Simple by Anonymous Monk on Sep 08, 2006 at 19:08 UTC
Thank you! Your explanation really helped!	[reply]
Re^7: showing an image downloaded with LWP::Simple by Melly (Chaplain) on Sep 08, 2006 at 20:35 UTC
I use the following html to display an image via a perl script: `<img src="randimage.cgi" border="2" alt="[mini-beast]">` [download] Where randimage.cgi is: `#!/usr/bin/perl -wT use strict; my @files = glob("./jpegs/*.jpg"); print "Location: $files[int(rand @files)]\n\n";` [download] If that's any help... ...and, no, I don't know what the 'Location: ' and two newlines are for - I can only assume that they are normally output by a web-server as part of the protocol... ... okay, looked 'Location: ' up - it's a redirection command, which makes sense. Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk	[reply] [d/l] [select]