Thanks Schoen, I am trying to find a mailing list such as web programming related. If anybody knows one, please do not hesitate to tell me. Kim TItu --- Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> wrote:

Titu Kim writes:

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Hi, How can i output some message apache log files so i can see the progress in cgi script? If i use regular print, cgi prints the content to client browser.

Thanks for any suggestion.

With many Unix web servers like Apache, writing data to standard error instead of standard output results in its being logged instead of transmitted to the client.

You can write things to standard error by doing something like

import sys # # ... # sys.stderr.write("hello there from my CGI script.\n")

These errors are written _directly_ into the Apache error log for the appropriate virtual host, which means they will be intermingled with things like HTTP errors. That might not be what you want; it could be better to open your own log file from within your CGI script, using the "open" file, and write the data directly into your private log file instead.

Questions about things like this might be more appropriate on some other list, although I'm not sure which one.

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