> It looks like the output function stops at the first null character
> (C-style strings problem??).
>
Yes, I use C-string with terminating null. I knew this problem already and
it's on the todo list to change this.
> ePerl does not have a problem with outputing binaries either. Look
> at the demo.image example at
>
> http://www.engelschall.com/sw/eperl/example/
>
You are free to use ePerl :-)
> Let's be honest about this. It is a bug and it can be fixed.
It's not a bug. Embperl, was written with ascii data in mind. I would write
your code as a Apache::Registry script:
$r = shift ;
$r -> http_headers_out('Content-type' => "image/gif") ;
$r -> send_hhtp_headers ;
print pack('H*', '47494638376114001400800000ff00000000002c' .
'0000000014001400000211848fa9cbed0fa39cb4' .
'da8bb3debcfbaf15003b');
> It would
> make Embperl much more useful than it is now. If it can't be done,
> which I doubt, I recommend everybody switching to PHP3. It is more
> consistent, and it does not suffer from this kind of mysterious
> problems.
>
The problem came up the first time about 3 weeks ago (Embperl is already 3
years old :-). I will of course change this in a further release so this
could also be done with Embperl, but that's not at the highest priority.
Gerald
