Invoke cgi from cgi script

[Tino Wildenhain]

"Magnus L. Hetland" wrote:
> 
> joshzeidner at my-deja.com writes:
> 
> >  Yeah but then he has to parse the HTML to get what he wants.  Not to
> > mention that you are needlessly overloading the web server.
> >
> 
> What do you mean? He asked how to call a cgi script from a cgi script
> - and that's what I do. What else could he have meant? What other
> output than HTML would you like from a cgi script?
> 
> >  its called DATA SCRAPING and it aint too much fun.
> 
> Bah - using re that's no problem.
double bah, cgi-scripts do not need to deliver HTML only. 
In fact they can return every datatype you want. plain-text,
images, whatever data. since CGI is 8-bit clean, you 
can even deliver pickled python-objects if you want.
(make sure you call them in a sandbox, you never know...)

Best regards

Tino Wildenhain