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#!/Perl # This section of code gets a list of the files that end in # .gif that are in the current directory and returns on of them # at random. scraped from the web! # make sure STDOUT is in binary mode! binmode STDOUT; #Tell the browser not to cache this image print "Cache-control: no-cache\n"; # The header must tell the browser we are returning an image! print "Content-type: image/gif\n\n"; # get a list of the files ### @files = <*.gif>; @files = <../java/images/tumble/*.gif>; $numfiles = @files; # pick one randonly srand; $fnum = int(rand($numfiles)); # read the image file and send to the browser send_image($files[$fnum]); exit; sub send_image { local($filename) = $_[0]; # attempt to open the file if (! open(F,$filename) ) { # Can't open the file - this is a fatal error! #fatal_error("Can't find the file $filename\n"); # No sense sending back a message - the browser expects # an image and won't display text! Just quit. exit; } # force the file handle to binary mode binmode F; local($line); # the file is open - read everything and send to # the browser while (read(F,$line,4096)) { print $line; } close(F); # close the file } #eof