[Tutor] Redirect from a CGI script

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On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 15:22 +0000, Paulino wrote:
> Still doesn't work. 

That's not terribly useful.  What status did tamperdata report?  What
did you see in the browser window?  Did you get a 302 status?

Try (specify the right URL for your script)

        telnet localhost 80
        GET /cgi-bin/redirect.py
        <enter>
        
What do you get?  (Describe what happens.)

Let us know if you don't understand the telnet command.

> 
> This should be a server issue, once I use a very basic server:
> 'from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer 
> 'from CGIHTTPServer import CGIHTTPRequestHandler
> 'HTTPServer(("localhost", 80),CGIHTTPRequestHandler).serve_forever()
> I tryed also with the Karrigel embeded server and nothing happened...
> 
> I tryed all the sugestions from Andre with no succes.
> 
> The cgi script as only these two lines:
> 'print "Content-type:    text/html\r\n"
> 'print "Location:        http://python.org/\r\n\r"
> 
> I have a Win Xp pro machine with Python2.5.
> 
> Paulino
> > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 02:10 +0000, Paulino wrote:
> >   
> > > Thank you Andre,
> > > 
> > > well it doesn't work either!
> > >     
> > 
> > This works, 
> > 
> > #!/usr/bin/python
> > print "Location:        http://python.org/\r\n\r"
> > 
> > as does this
> > 
> > #!/usr/bin/python
> > print "Content-type:    text/html\r"
> > print "Location:        http://python.org/\r\n\r"
> > 
> > 
> > Tested using Apache on Linux.  A redirect should have a 3xx status.
> > Apache saw the location header and fixed the status to be 302.  My
> > browser (firefox) received the 302 status with the new location and
> > requested the new URL.
> > 
> > Each header line should be separated by \r\n.  A Python print on linux
> > will only output \n.  In actual practice, that appears to work OK.
> > either the browsers tolerate the missing \r or Apache fixes the data
> > stream.
> > 
> > Firefox plugins called tamperdata and liveheaders can be very helpful
> > for debugging these kinds of interactions.
> > 
> > Get the redirect to a real web site working.  Then fix it to redirect to
> > your script.  Use tamperdata to see what is going on if you have trouble
> > making it work.
> > 
> >   
> > > Paulino
> > >     
> > > > Andre Engels escreveu:
> > > > 2007/1/18, Paulino <paulino1_at_sapo.pt at .syntax-error>: 
> > > >         How can i redirect to another URL from a python CGI script.
> > > >         
> > > >         Is's suposed to be as simply as:
> > > >         
> > > >         print "Location : http://newurl "
> > > >         It's not working.
> > > >         
> > > >         this simple code does't work - < redir.pyw>
> > > >         'print "Content-Type:text/html\n\n"
> > > >         'print "Location : /cgi-bin/ecodiv.pyw "
> > > >         'print
> > > >         
> > > >         I use CGIHTTPServer, the server script is as follows:
> > > >         
> > > >         'from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer 
> > > >         'from CGIHTTPServer import CGIHTTPRequestHandler
> > > >         'HTTPServer(("localhost", 80),
> > > >         CGIHTTPRequestHandler).serve_forever()
> > > >         
> > > >         instead of redirecting, it only prints
> > > >         'Location : /cgi-bin/ecodiv.pyw' inthe 
> > > >         browser
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I haven't tested it, but I think I had a similar error recently, and
> > > > that was solved by removing the \n\n at the end of the Content-Type
> > > > line. You could try that.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Andre Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
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