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So I'm building a perl/dancer app and I want to serve an image at a url like this:

mysite.com/image.png (which will be generated at runtime)

I did this:

get '/image' => sub {
    # create a new image
    my $im = new GD::Image(100,100);

    # allocate some colors
    my $white = $im->colorAllocate(255,255,255);
    my $black = $im->colorAllocate(0,0,0);      
    my $red = $im->colorAllocate(255,0,0);     
    my $blue = $im->colorAllocate(0,0,255);

    # make the background transparent and interlaced
    $im->transparent($white);
    $im->interlaced('true');
    # Put a black frame around the picture
    $im->rectangle(0,0,99,99,$black);
    # Draw a blue oval
    $im->arc(50,50,95,75,0,360,$blue);
    # And fill it with red
    $im->fill(50,50,$red);
    content_type 'image/png';
    binmode STDOUT;#don't think this makes a diff.
    send_file($im->png);
};
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But, I end up getting a broken image and 400 BAD request in the network log. Any ideas? I tried putting it all in a eval, no errors there.

In reply to serving an image with dancer and GD by gideondsouza

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