[Tutor] Option on How to create web Interface

Thu May 22 20:47:33 CEST 2014

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
> But basically this just creates a text file in a folder somewhere.
> Its only when that is accessed via a web server that it gets
> sent to a browser, and only as a static file.
>
> If you wanted to do it dynamically you'd have a file called
> something like mypage.cgi which looked like:
>
> print("<html><head><title>My web page</title></head>")
> print("<body>This the body</body></html>")
>
> And provided the web server was configured to run python
> on cgi files you could access it as
>
> http://myserver.addresss/mypage.cgi

Sadly, this is not the modern way to do it.  These days, it’s
recommended to use something like Flask, or Django, or whatnot.  CGI
is ancient, and problematic.

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