Re: [MacPerl] Another step in the Glue...

[Strider <Strider@baka.com>]

>According to Strider:
>>
>> Well, I worked out that I need to send a binary file (the gif) back to
>> WebStar. How do I do THAT? I pretty much need to print a binary. Can I use
>> a pipe | to pipe it straight to print from open, or put it into a variable
>> and then print it (which so far hasn't worked)?
>>
>> #!perl
>> # takes input:
>>http://www.clarityconnect.com/counter.count$cci/clarityconnect
>> print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\nContent-type: image/gif\n\n";
>> open HANDLE, "</gifs/gifone.gif";
>> binmode HANDLE;
>> $gif = HANDLE;
>> close HANDLE;
>> print $gif;
>> print "\n";
>>
>> This is what I've got so far, and it doesn't work.
>> I truely hope I haven't done something stupid like set the gif to output,
>> rather than input.
>
>This is _really_ not a MacPerl question - it's either a
>Perl question or a CGI question - but not a MacPerl
>question.  :-)
>
>That said - You need to send back the proper CGI command:
>
><img src="gifs/gifone.gif">
>
>This will cause the browser to then ask for the image to be
>sent.  I do it all of the time.  :-)
>
>Also - you can not open a binary file (like a gif file) as
>a text file and expect anything to work.  Binary to
>binary.  Text to text.  If you want to work with a binary
>file, then you have to treat it as such.  You can send a
>GIF file by doing the following also:
>
>@fileStat = stat "gifs/gifone.gif";
>sysopen( THEFILE, "gifs/gifone.gif", O_RDWR ) || die $!;
>sysread( THEFILE, $iobuf, $fileStat[7] );
>close( THEFILE );
>
>$iobuf will then correctly contain the information from the
>binary file and can be sent.  However, you still have to
>tell the server how to send this properly (which you have
>with the image/gif stuff).
>
>I hope this helps.  I've always just used the
>"Content-type: text/html" with the '<img src="xxxxx">' and
>have never had any kind of a problem with getting an image
>to show up correctly.  :-)


Thanks much. As much as it might not be a MAC perl problem, I just feel
more comfy and cooshy in a mac-friendly environment. =)

Thanks,
Seraph



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