# Output an image to the browser
sub show_img {
my $img = shift;
my ($mime) = $img =~ /\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$/;
$mime = 'jpeg' if $mime eq 'jpg';
open my $fh, '<', $img or die "Could not open $img for read: $!";
binmode $fh;
my $img_data = do { local $/; <$fh> };
close $fh;
print header('image/' . $mime), $img_data;
exit;
}
Rather than pump the image yourself, I'd put the images somewhere in your www-server space (an unlinked unannounced directory), and then use an internal redirect:
print redirect("/some/webpath/to/selected/image.jpg");
The advantages are many:
- The server is better than you at pumping data.
- The values of last-modified and if-modified-since will be respected, allowing the server to avoid sending the data if the browser already has the image cached.
- You won't ever be able to accidentally access something outside the normal htdoc tree, even from bad programming or malicious hacking.
- Your CGI process goes away quicker.
- The code will be eight lines shorter. {grin}
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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