Hi all,

I'm running the following script as a minimalistic CGI server on
Windows ME:

httpd.py
--------
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer
from CGIHTTPServer import CGIHTTPRequestHandler

server = HTTPServer(("", 8080), CGIHTTPRequestHandler)
server.serve_forever()

This works fine showing html files and even running python scripts.
However if I try something like
http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/Test.py?key=123
using the following script:

Test.py
-------
import cgi

form = cgi.FieldStorage()
value = form.getfirst('key', "???")

print "Content-Type: text/html"
print
print "value = %s" % value

it shows 'value = ???' in the browswer.
In other words cgi.FieldStorage is empty.
Using a form and the 'POST' method doesn't help either.

On a 'real' Internet server (Linux/Apache) the same script works
without problems. So my conclusion is, that either the CGIHTTPServer
or the cgi module don't work on Windows, but I can't find anything
about this issue in the documentation or using Google.
Any hints?

Thanks in advance

Rainer

I believe you're experiencing a bug that I also encountered, and for
which there is a patch. See:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?grou...il&aid=1110478

Fixing os.py as described in the patch fixed all my CGI-related
problems. Hope it does for you too!

Jason

Jason Drew wrote:[color=blue]
> I believe you're experiencing a bug that I also encountered, and for
> which there is a patch. See:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?grou...il&aid=1110478
>
> Fixing os.py as described in the patch fixed all my CGI-related
> problems. Hope it does for you too!
>
> Jason
>[/color]

It did!

Thanks a lot Jason.
You just saved my mental health.

Rainer

Rainer Mansfeld wrote:[color=blue]
> Jason Drew wrote:[color=green]
> > I believe you're experiencing a bug that I also encountered, and[/color][/color]
for[color=blue][color=green]
> > which there is a patch. See:
> >[/color][/color]
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?grou...il&aid=1110478[color=blue][color=green]
> >
> > Fixing os.py as described in the patch fixed all my CGI-related
> > problems. Hope it does for you too!
> >
> > Jason
> >[/color]
>
> It did!
>
> Thanks a lot Jason.
> You just saved my mental health.
>
> Rainer[/color]


You're welcome! (And thanks too to June Kim and Martin v. Löwis for
posting and fixing the bug, respectively, I think.)