cgi post question

[Felicia Neff]

Thanks.  The solution was offered by a different Jeff who pointed me to
the following:
urlpost.py at http://starship.python.net/~jjkunce/ 

-- Felicia

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Jeff wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:08:23PM -0400, Felicia Neff wrote:
> > Yes, this is yet another newbie question:
> > 
> > I am trying to write a CGI script that takes input from a POST, modifies
> > some of the input and then POSTs that info to another CGI script.  I know
> > that perl has a function that will do this.  Is there such a function in
> > python (and if it is do_POST() from the CGIHTTPServer module, is there any
> > more documentation besides that at
> > http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-CGIHTTPServer.html?)?
> > 
> > Thanks -- Felicia
> > 
> 
> hmm.. well, I can't offer any code that I've written to do this, but my
> suggestion would be to use the built-in libraries as much as possible. if
> you are using cgi scripts via apache or something, most of the work is
> already done for you-- iirc, you get the POST data on 'sys.stdin'.. you can
> simply call 'sys.stdin.read()' and pass it into the FieldStorage class or
> something.
> 
> my advise would be to get something working in it's simplest form before
> adding features like posting the results of one form into another.
> 
> questions: what are you trying to accomplish? a poll system? some kind of
> order system? why do you need to modify the data and pass it to another
> module? can you do it all inline to simplify the process a little?
> 
> other than the newsgroups, the documentation on python.org is indeed 'all'
> of the documentation.. what specifically about using that module do you not
> understand? is the problem with the module itself or with how it's
> documented?
> 
> regards,
> J
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