cgi post problem

Tue Sep 24 00:32:37 EDT 2002

Hi,

I am trying to post a form to a cgi script.  The form is as follows:

<form action="http://someurl.com/cgi-bin/updatexml.py" method="POST">
    <input type="text" name="/Product/Name" size="20" />
    <input type="text" name="/Product/PartNumber" size="20" />
    <input type="text" name="/Product/Inventory" size="20" />
    <input type="text" name="/Product/Cost" size="20" />
    <input type="text" name="/Product/WholesalePrice" size="20" />
    <input type="submit" value="Update Records" />
</form>

At the other end, the updatexml.py file currently just echoes back the form
data, as follows (with some wrapper code):

#!/usr/local/bin/python

import sys, traceback, cgi

excText = ""

def main():
    global excText
    try:
        form = cgi.FieldStorage()
 keys = form.keys()

        print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
        print("""<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
        <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN'
'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd'>
        <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'>
            <head>
                <title>CGI exception</title>
                <link type='text/css' rel='stylesheet' href='style.css' />
                <script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text/js\"
href=\"scripts/Netscape4Fix.js\"></script>
            </head>
            <body>

        """)
        print "<p>** ",keys," **</p>"
        print "</body></html>"

    except:
        print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
        import time
        errtime = '--- '+ time.ctime(time.time()) +' ---\n'
        errlog = open('cgi_errlog', 'a')
        errlog.write(errtime)
        traceback.print_exc(None, errlog)
        errlog.close()
        print("""<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
        <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN'
'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd'>
        <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'>
            <head>
                <title>CGI exception</title>
                <link type='text/css' rel='stylesheet' href='style.css' />
                <script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text/js\"
href=\"scripts/Netscape4.js\"></script>
            </head>
            <body>
            <div id=\"main\">
        """)
        print "<p class='error'>Sorry, a problem was encountered running the
cgi script: </p><br />\n"
 if excText != "":
  print "<p class='citation'>", excText, "</p>"
        print "</div></body></html>"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

==================

The output of the script is always an empty [].  Does anybody know what the
problem might be?  In a previous thread, the problem was that the user had
<input id=""...> instead of using name ="", but that is not the case here.

Thanks for any help.  I have checked usenet and the python faq and used
google, to no avail.

jano