CGI on Windows

[Rainer Mansfeld]

Hi all,

I'm running the following script as a minimalistic CGI server on
Windows ME:

httpd.py
--------
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer
from CGIHTTPServer import CGIHTTPRequestHandler

server = HTTPServer(("", 8080), CGIHTTPRequestHandler)
server.serve_forever()

This works fine showing html files and even running python scripts.
However if I try something like
http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/Test.py?key=123
using the following script:

Test.py
-------
import cgi

form = cgi.FieldStorage()
value = form.getfirst('key', "???")

print "Content-Type: text/html"
print
print "value = %s" % value

it shows 'value = ???' in the browswer.
In other words cgi.FieldStorage is empty.
Using a form and the 'POST' method doesn't help either.

On a 'real' Internet server (Linux/Apache) the same script works
without problems. So my conclusion is, that either the CGIHTTPServer
or the cgi module don't work on Windows, but I can't find anything
about this issue in the documentation or using Google.
Any hints?

Thanks in advance

Rainer

 

[Jason Drew]

I believe you're experiencing a bug that I also encountered, and for
which there is a patch. See:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470&func=detail&aid=1110478

Fixing os.py as described in the patch fixed all my CGI-related
problems. Hope it does for you too!

Jason

 

[Rainer Mansfeld]

I believe you're experiencing a bug that I also encountered, and for
which there is a patch. See:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470&func=detail&aid=1110478

Fixing os.py as described in the patch fixed all my CGI-related
problems. Hope it does for you too!

Jason

It did!

Thanks a lot Jason.
You just saved my mental health.

Rainer

 

[Jason Drew]

It did!

Thanks a lot Jason.
You just saved my mental health.

Rainer

You're welcome! (And thanks too to June Kim and Martin v. Löwis for
posting and fixing the bug, respectively, I think.)