At 5:53 PM +0100 3/26/02, Axel Beckert - ecos gmbh wrote:
>But in general it works. E.g. the following little Embperl script
>works fine:
>
>[- $req_rec->content_type('image/gif'); # Sending the right header
> $escmode = 0; # No HTML escaping
> $image = 'embperl_pb2.gif';
> open(IMG,'<',$image) or die "Can't open $image: $!";
> read(IMG,$buffer,-s IMG);
> close(IMG);
> print OUT $buffer; -]
I usually call Apache::Exit at the end of that sequence, just to make
sure nothing else from the file gets output, although I'm not sure
it's necessary, and of course you don't want to have anything before
the [- for the same reason.
>I guess the reason is, as Michael stated, that templating systems
>aren't the best idea for generating images.
I have had my 404 page generate images when people went to
non-existent images on my site. But it turned out to be easier to
just do a redirect.
However Embperl2 recipes could make for some interesting
possibilities. I can imagine XML files taking arguments from the
browser and then automatically generating images.
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