Re^2: <img> tag does not work in my perl/cgi code

Yes, exactly there. Besides, when I get source from my web page where image is not shown, save as HTML file, place it in /cgi-bin/ directory it opens with image. Why?

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Re^3: <img> tag does not work in my perl/cgi code by thezip (Vicar) on Feb 23, 2008 at 22:41 UTC
vit, webservers are not usually configured to render images in a CGI/executable mapped directory. The only thing that happens to files residing in these trees is that they are executed (ie. scripts etc.) Images and HTML docs should never reside in this tree. Images, HTML documents, etc., should reside in the non-executable side of the webserver which is mapped so that the content is merely displayed (and NOT executed). This tree is usually named "htdocs" (in the Unix world, in MS-IIS it's named something else). If you view the files statically (ie. via your filesystem), the configured limitations of the webserver mappings are not imposed, thus you can view the image successfully. Your wish is my commandline.	[reply]

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Re^3: <img> tag does not work in my perl/cgi code
by thezip (Vicar) on Feb 23, 2008 at 22:41 UTC

vit, webservers are not usually configured to render images in a CGI/executable mapped directory. The only thing that happens to files residing in these trees is that they are executed (ie. scripts etc.) Images and HTML docs should never reside in this tree.

Images, HTML documents, etc., should reside in the non-executable side of the webserver which is mapped so that the content is merely displayed (and *NOT* executed). This tree is usually named "htdocs" (in the Unix world, in MS-IIS it's named something else).

If you view the files statically (ie. via your filesystem), the configured limitations of the webserver mappings are not imposed, thus you can view the image successfully.

Your wish is my commandline.

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