Sending binary data over CGI

[Walter Huf]

Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote in
news:onod401p4rjbe9kuu10q6518l93ds7rks3 at 4ax.com: 
> 
> Really?  This is such a common problem that most Windows Python
> programmers encounter it very early in their experiments.
> 
> The issue, of course, is that stdout is opened as a text file, not as
> a binary file, and we all know that the LF to CR-LF conversion you
> describe is part of the normal processing of a text file in Windows.
> 
> If you must send binary data through stdout, do this before you start
> to write:
> 
>   import os
>   import msvcrt
>   ...
>   msvcrt.setmode( stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY )

Awesome, thanks! I'm quite new at Python. I've done a lot in Visual Basic, 
and even written a couple cgiprogs in basic, but my server on the 
internet(http://hufman.cobalty.com) is a linux server, and, Micro$oft being 
Micro$oft, there is no visual basic compiler or interpreter for linux. I 
started learning Python last Sunday, so I wouldn't know anything about the 
conversions. Well, I knew about the newline conversions, I think, but I 
didn't know how to get around it. I couldn't find anything about it in the 
help. Thank you though!

--Walter Huf--
hufman at cobalty.com


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