If lhoward's answer isn't what you were looking for exactly (i am only assuming this because you said you were a perl newbie and you probably wouldn't have any GD knowledge if you were :) then this might be what you're looking for. Rather than using an

<img src="...">

tag, you could use an href to go to the perl script which will then display the specified image file like this

<a href="/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=image.jpg">

In this way, you can have one script display all your images based on the filename in the URL, and each image will be displayed on a page with the same "Look and Feel" without having to write multiple pages. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use CGI;

my $cgi = new CGI;
my $image = $cgi->param('image');

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print "<html><head><title>$image</title></head>\n";
print "<body>\n";
print "<center>\n";
print "<img src=/images/$image><p>\n"; #The path here would obviously 
+be different according to where your images are at
print "</center>\n";
print "</body>\n";
print "</html>\n";

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In reply to Re: How can I use a CGI script to return an image? by xjar
in thread How can I use a CGI script to return an image? by Anonymous Monk

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