trying again: CgiHttpServer workalike for Win/NT and Win/98?

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Wed Dec 15 17:32:04 EST 1999


Alex Martelli wrote in message <837o38$b65$1 at serv1.iunet.it>...
>I thought I had posted this request (mailed it to the list, to
>be precise), but it doesn't seem to have 'taken', so, I'm
>trying again, via the NG this time -- sorry if it's a repeat.

My guess is simply that noone has hacked this code to work on NT.

>To test some CGI scripts with minimal hassle, I would like to
>be able to run CgiHttpServer.py, or something similar to it,
>on some Windows/NT and Windows/98 PCs.  Unfortunately
>for this purpose, it seems that CgiHttpServer.py itself is oriented
>to Unix (e.g., it wants to fork to run the script).

Which means your only solution may be to try and hack it.  It should not be
too hard to change CgiHttpServer.py to work on Windows if you make a few
assumptions.  But it looks like you are the first...

Mark.






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