[Tutor] cgi not executed when accessed through browser
runsun
runsun@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu
Sat, 20 Jul 2002 18:34:39 -0500
Thx for the replies but it still unsolved.
First of all, you don't need the <html> and <body> tags for a
browser to read a document as html one. For example, a simple
file containing only one line:
<font color=red> This is red </font>
will show up red on a browser, without <html> and <body> tags.
Therefore, the fact that my original code didn't contain these
tags can't be the reason for not showing correctly in a browser.
I did add:
print '<html>'
print '<body>'
but it didn't help.
The problem is that the cgi file was NOT EXECUTED when
accessed through a browser, but only READ instead. It's
executed when accessed from a command line on the server.
] Message: 8
] Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 01:01:49 -0400
] From: Kirk Bailey <idiot1@netzero.net>
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] To: "tutor@python.org" <tutor@python.org>
] Subject: Re: [Tutor] cgi not executed when accessed through browser
]
] Yep. It's not a html page.
]
] Read below.
]
] runsun wrote:
] >
] > Hi all,
] >
] > I have a simple python-based cgi :
] >
] > ===================[ content of test.cgi ]===========
] > #!/opt/bin/python
] > import os
] >
] > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
] >
] See, from now on, the server treats it as a html page- and so does the
] browser.
] No body tag, no <HTML> tag. What's a browser to do?
]
] > print "hello\n"
] '\n' is useless in html. CARRIGERUTURNS are IGNORED.
]
] > print os.listdir("..")
] >
] All one line in html I fear. UNLESS one preceeds it with the <PRE> tag.
] > print "\n"
] Likewise ignored.
]
] >
] > print os.listdir("../..")
] > ============================================
] >
] > It was executed as expected when called from command line
] > in my unix account.
] sure it was, the telnet client is not a html browser.
] > But when it was called through a browser,
] > it didn't print out the listdir that I expected, but displayed the
] > entire code content as text on my browser.
] >
] And probably included formatting discrepancies you did not mention.
] {Possibly you did not notice? Not meaning to hurt feelings.)
]
] > Any help ?
] >
] Was my reply any help? Want a sample hello world script?
]
] > pan
] >
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] Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 01:21:35 -0400
] From: Kirk Bailey <idiot1@netzero.net>
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] To: "tutor@python.org" <tutor@python.org>
] Subject: Re: [Tutor] cgi not executed when accessed through browser
]
] My first simple one.
]
] ns# list first.py
] Listing of file first.py in directory:/www/www.howlermonkey.net/cgi-bin
]
] #!/usr/local/bin/python
] print "Content-type: text/html"
] print
] print "<title>First program</title></head>"
] print "<body bgcolor=\"FFFFFF\" text=\"000000\" link=\"0000FF\">"
] print '<P>'
] print "Hello world!"
] print '<P>'
] print '</body></html>'
]
] And then a not so simple one:
]
] ns# list helloworld.py
] Listing of file helloworld.py in
] directory:/www/www.howlermonkey.net/cgi-bin
]
] #!/usr/local/bin/python
] #import cgi
] print "Content-Type: text/html" # HTML is following
] print # blank line, end of headers
] print "<TITLE>CGI script output</TITLE>"
] print "</head>"
] print "<body bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" text=\"#000000\" ><blockquote>"
] print "<P>"
] print "<center><H1>This is my first CGI script</H1></center>"
] print "<P>\n<br>"
] print "Hello, world!"
] print "<P>"
] print "this is my very first python cgi script, and it works! YAHOO!"
] print "<p>"
] print "getting the quotes in the BODY statement to come out failed until
] I remem
] bered"
] print "to ise a \\ in front of the quote so it would be a literal
] instead of a "
] print "end to a print declaration. So exxcited I plum forgot, ant
] really,"
] print "that's the same as in a shell script, pure human stupidity and
] ham handed
] ness,"
] print "but it's fine <i>NOW</i>. Ya know, I could do a file copy in and
] print ou
] t and"
] print "store the content as a simple heml file, and less work on
] changing or cre
] ating"
] print "the scripts... hmmm..."
] print "<P>\n<br>"
] print "</html>"
] print "</body>"
]
]
] ns#
] 'list' is a shell script I wrote, which is so simple it is disgusting.
]
] ns# list /usr/local/sbin/list
] Listing of file /usr/local/sbin/list in
] directory:/www/www.howlermonkey.net/cgi-bin
]
] #! /bin/sh
] echo -n Listing of file $1 in directory:
] pwd
] echo
] more < $1;
] echo
]
] Home some of this helps.
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] Respectfully,
] Kirk D Bailey
]
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