[Tutor] CGI request handler bug?

[Steve N]

> I was playing with some simple HTTP CGI server code
> and discovered what I think may be a bug in
> CGIHTTPServer.CGIHTTPRequestHandler. A "GET" request
> without a leading '/' from a telnet session displays
> the CGI script rather than the script's output. If >
the
> request includes the leading '/', the script is run
as
> expected. Is this a bug?

I think I've solved my problem by adding subclassing
CGIHTTPRequestHandler and adding this at the start of
the is_cgi() method:

        if not self.path.startswith('/'):
            self.path = '/' + self.path
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SteveN



 
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