[Tutor] please help with simple python CGI script

Lie Ryan lie.1296 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 13:35:44 CET 2008


On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:32:52 +0000, Alan Gauld wrote:

> "aivars" <aivars868 at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:c5ad28970810260045r61e5bbe4h1bbb3dffbe598619 at mail.gmail.com...
>>I finally get the script working!
>>
>> I renamed the script directory from Cgi-bin to cgi-bin just as Alan
>> told.
> 
> I'm glad it worked but I confess I'm not sure why it worked. The
> interpreter was apparently finding your script OK but it was the
> environment that was messed up. I don't fully understand the interaction
> going on  there. But in things web related I've learned that consistency
> throughout is usually helpul!
> 
> Alan G.
> 

I wouldn't have thought it could work, since Windows is case insensitive 
and web server is required understand URL as case insensitive. Why that 
Cgi-bin and cgi-bin differs on a windows-based server is beyond me.



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