For some reason, the jpg I want to use for the background image doesn't want to load from my CGI script. I'm using essentially:

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

print <<Start;
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>PAGE TITLE</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BACKGROUND="image.jpg">
<H2>Header Line</H2></BODY></HTML>
Start

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The page generates, but the image doesn't load. I've also tried just sticking an image in the page (a la IMG SRC) and that doesn't work either. The JPEG is in the cgi-bin directory along with the script. I've tried it in a different directory as well, mapping to that folder in the 'BACKGROUND=' info, but no dice. Any thoughts? Or is it just some private weirdness of my system? Thanks.

In reply to images & background images with CGI by bighara

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