>
> Is Embperl supposed to suppress the output of NUL characters?
>
Embperl 1.x is using NUL terminated C strings internaly, so it's
interpreting a NUL char as end of string. So currently your only chance is
to setup a registry script.
Embperl 2.0 (on which I do currently alpha testing) will not have this
limitation.
Gerald
> Let's say for example that I want to write an embperl script that
> outputs a GIF (here's a trivial example for illustration purposes):
>
> [+
> $http_headers_out{'Content-Type'} = 'image/gif';
> local $escmode = 0;
> `cat test.gif`;
> +]
>
> In the example above, there is no whitespace in the .epl file
> outside the [++].
>
> What happens is that Embperl cuts of the output at the first NUL
> (ascii-zero) character in the output data.
>
> So in this example, I get just the following characters:
>
> GIF89a\220 (and a spurious return). The content-length header
> says "9" (but should actually say 8). The remaining characters
> are suppressed.
>
>
> So: am I off base for even trying this? I realize that embperl
> is designed for text-based HTML output, but I have lots of
> embperl apps, and it's just more convenient for me to do this one
> app that has to return an image as an embperl app than to set up
> a registry CGI script to do it.
>
>
> -c
>
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