[Tutor] HTTP GET Request
Kent Johnson
kent37 at tds.net
Tue Sep 27 18:33:29 CEST 2005
Jerl Simpson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been looking through some of the HTTP projects and haven't quite
> found what I'm looking for.
> Basicall, what I need is a stand alone CGI. Instead of the program
> passing the data off to a CGI, I want it to parse and handle the request
> directly.
>
> The part I'm having trouble with is actually getting the request and
> parsing it.
It sounds like you need to set up a web server. It also sounds like maybe you don't know that you need to set up a web server? You might want to take a look at CherryPy which is pretty easy to get started with. The third tutorial program shows how to get query parameters from the URL.
http://www.cherrypy.org
Kent
>
> Let's say I have a URI that looks like: ?var1=val1&var2=val2&...varn=valn
>
> I'd like to find a way to get these into some datastructure so I can use
> them to generate my output.
>
> It seems like a simple thing, but as I'm new to python, I don't know
> where to start.
>
> Thank you for any help you can give.
>
>
> Jerl
>
>
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