Python CGI running commands under NT

[Paul Robinson]

Pieter Claerhout wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I made a Python CGI-script that executes a DOS-command and
> should return the result in a HTML page. The script looks
> as follows:
> 
>   import os
> 
>   pipe = os.popen("ipconfig", 'r')
>   text = pipe.read()

Pieter,
By default IIS does not create a console associated with a CGI process.
This means that the pipe has nowhere to read from!

See: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q194/9/48.ASP

For some info on how you can change this behaviour. I've tried this in
the past with limited success (and I also found it hard to turn it off
again!).

	Paul.


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