As podmaster put's it, you have misunderstood some things about browsers, HTML and HTTP. You should make an html page which refers to you counter image like any other image. This could serve as a very simple (and untested) example:

First, the HTML page: 

<html>
  <head>
   <title>Test page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <H1>My test page</H1>
    My counter below:<BR>
    <IMG SRC="/cgi-bin/my-count.pl">
  </body>
</html>

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And now, my-count.pl

#!C:\Progra~1\Perl\bin\perl

use CGI;
$co=new CGI;
print $co->header(-type=>'image/jpeg');

$size = stat("counter.jpg")[7];
open (FILEHANDLE,"<counter.jpg");
read FILEHANDLE,$imagedata,$size;
close FILEHANDLE;

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And then you replace my-count.pl with something that actually counts.

In reply to Re: Error reading image from perl cgi script into HTML by fsn
in thread Error reading image from perl cgi script into HTML by grao5

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