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Using Perl to Display Picture

my directory structure is /home/p/public_html/cgi-bin/
I am trying to display a pic (using perl)outside of public_html ... I tried doing

header ('image/gif');
print "<IMG SRC=\"/home/p/pic.gif\">";

but when i render it i realise it is looking for the picture at www.servername.com/home/p/pic.gif
and i guess since it doesn't have permission for /home/p it just diplays the red x.

How can i solve this problem?

Thanks

Kim Ryan

Yes, public_html is normally set up for everyone to read. You could grant read access to all on the diretory /home/p
Your HTML may also be set up to define a base reference point of /home/p/public_html

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nebest

ASKER

I tried using the suggestion by Tintin and I get a bunch of garbled text printed to screen ... what do i need to do to convert it to an actual image.

Tintin

What browser are you using? Have you opened the image directly in the browser previously?

nebest

ASKER

I am using internet explorer. I can open the image perfectly directly when its in public_html. I know its reading the image file, can you give me an idea why i would see garbled data rather than pic. is there some header i may not be including?

nebest

ASKER

The code you sent works perfectly, thank you... I guess it has something to do with the fact that I am also printing text data in the same perl script. I just tried using your code without any other code and it works.

Thanks for your help

Tintin

You can't mix content types (as you found out).