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FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about CGI Programming
Section - 3.17 Can I use a CGI script to generate both text and inline images?

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Not directly.   One script generates one response to one request.

If you want to generate a dynamic page including dynamic images
(say, a report including graphs, all of which depend on user input)
then your primary script will print the usual
   <img src="[script-to-generate-image]" alt="[what you asked for]">
and, just as in the multiple frames case, you can pass data to the
image-generating program encoded in a GET URL.   Of course, the same
caveats apply: see above.


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