Invoke cgi from cgi script

joshzeidner at my-deja.com joshzeidner at my-deja.com
Sat Oct 9 14:02:41 EDT 1999


 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.

 its called DATA SCRAPING and it aint too much fun.

  -josh z

>
> Use urllib... For instance:
>
>   from urllib import urlopen
>   cgioutput = urlopen("http://something/something.cgi")
>
> Quite simple, huh?
>
> > Thanks
> > Gopal
>
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