[ale] apache + ssi question

[Josh Murrah]

What you're experiencing is that fact that your SSI is  directly calling
the image binary information RIGHT INTO the page.  For example, if I had a
simple perl script that output "foo", the output from a SSI include would
show up in the html on the client side, I.E. the work "foo" would show up
in the final document.  Now, what you're doing is inserting the binary
information of the image into the final document, causing all kinda of
garbage in a text/html document.  What you should do instead is use
straight CGI and use a <img src="http://somesite/somecgi">

Well, I hope that made sense anyway :)

Josh Murrah, jmurrah at salug.org, http://jmurrah.salug.org, ICQ 4613433
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On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Mir Shafiqul Islam wrote:

> Hi, I have this problem with SSI. Most likely a config or call problem.
> 
> I am calling a script from a .shtml document. The script is a perl script
> and creates a gif image on the fly. I want the document to show the image.
> 
> But instead of image it is showing gibberish.
> 
> here is how I call the script.
> 
> <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/image.cgi"-->
> 
> Once again the image.cgi script is a perl script utilizing GD library to
> create a gif image on the fly. If I call just the script, image shows up
> fine. So, I know the Image header is written fine. Any ideas ? Thanks.
> 
>  -- 
> Mir S Islam
> Systems Administrator
> Office of International Services and Programs
> Georgia State University  
> mir at oisp.gsu.edu
>