How to read JPEG and output to HTML

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

I have code to read LDAP to pull our a jpeg. The jpeg is in a string in perl. How can I output that string of binary data to the web page. I know I could write it and then generate the web page but wanted to avoid creating the jpg on the file system first.

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Re: How to read JPEG and output to HTML by bikeNomad (Priest) on Jul 25, 2001 at 09:43 UTC
Just have a CGI (or other server-side Perl script) that, when called, outputs HTTP headers and content: `my $jpeg = getTheJpeg(); binmode STDOUT; print "Content-Type: image-jpeg\r\n", "Content-Length: ", length($jpeg), "\r\n\r\n", $jpeg;` [download] The CGI is then pointed to by an IMG tag in your HTML. update: shortened print command for clarity	[reply] [d/l]