[Tutor] Help search files

Thu Jul 5 14:11:21 CEST 2007

Yes i am a newbie in web design but i understand the concept of CGI. My
problem is that I do not know how to do a search based in binary
files.Forexample a user conect to my webpage and dicide to search
windows.iso he write in the textbox and put submit and must appear the
result to download the link.
Thz

On 7/5/07, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> "Alejandro Decchi" <adecchi at gmail.com> wrote
>
> > Yes I have a debian server runing apache. Can you give me a link?
>
> I could give you lots of links but which is most useful will depend
> on your level of knowledge. I get the impression that you are not
> experienced in Web development and so may not even understand
> concepts like CGI? If so the best place to start is by searching for
> a Web tutorial on how to write CGI applications. There are many
> of these and probably one in your native language, read that first.
>
> Then look at the CGI tutorial onthe Python web site:
>
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/CgiScripts
>
> as well as the documentation on the cgi module:
>
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-cgi.html
>
> > do not how to make the search and list the files found to download
>
> The list of files is just plain HTML. Here is some very
> primitive code:
>
> print "<ul>"
> for name in ['foo.txt','bar.txt', 'baz.txt']:
>   print "<li> %s </li>" % name
> print "</ul>"
>
> In your case you need to surround the name with an anchor link too.
> None of this is Python specific it is just basic web programming in
> HTML.
>
> HTH,
>
> Alan G.
>
> >
> > On 7/4/07, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> "Alejandro Decchi" <adecchi at gmail.com> wrote
> >>
> >> > Ok  but i have this form:
> >> > <body>
> >> > <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post"
> >> > action="/cgi-bin/search.py">
> >>
> >> OK, You didn't make it clear that you meant a CGI program,
> >> I was assuming you meant a GUI program. That adds a whole
> >> heap of extra complexity. A lot depends on what web
> >> mechanism/framework you are using. If we assume the
> >> standard cgi module then you need to get the submited
> >> data out of the request with the field_storage dictionary.
> >> Then you need to call your search function and finally
> >> format the results as HTML. Either offer to downoad a
> >> particular file and have a second request start the download
> >> or just send the file back, but that could be an unexpected result.
> >> I'd offer the file as a link and let the user click on it to fetch
> >> it
> >> from the server.
> >>
> >> But web programming is a whole different ball game.
> >> You should look up some simple examples first.
> >>
> >> Alan G.
> >>
> >>
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