Help needed for to build a CGI shell interface.

[Slalomsk8er]

I don't get it with the popen (popen3 or subprocess).

1. How do I establish my pipes?

2. And how do I interact with the pipes (interactive CGI-page)?

Thanks, Dominik

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Slalomsk8er wrote:

I don't get it with the popen (popen3 or subprocess).

1. How do I establish my pipes?

2. And how do I interact with the pipes (interactive CGI-page)?

There are plenty of python + http frameworks out there - from simple
cgi-like ones like mod_python to full fledged app servers like zope. As
usual, google is your friend. No need to dig into the things you mentioned
above - at least not for what you want to do right now.
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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch

[Slalomsk8er]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:

Slalomsk8er wrote:

I don't get it with the popen (popen3 or subprocess).

1. How do I establish my pipes?

2. And how do I interact with the pipes (interactive CGI-page)?

There are plenty of python + http frameworks out there - from simple
cgi-like ones like mod_python to full fledged app servers like zope. As
usual, google is your friend. No need to dig into the things you mentioned
above - at least not for what you want to do right now.

What do I want to do? I am building an admintool (deamon and client) and
for this I need to script a interface to the shell, with the console
ansi escape sequences, whitch is fully transparent for the user.

I do not want Zope or Plone. I want Python and XUL.

Google is my friend but I did not found the answers I need to understand
the concepts behind the parts (python internals and shell/terminal things).

Please point me to the info, I can not find it (tryed for some days) or
post code so I can reverse engenieer ;) and adapt it.

Thanks, Dominik

[Tim Roberts]

Slalomsk8er <ne**@slalomsk8 er.ch> wrote:

What do I want to do? I am building an admintool (deamon and client) and
for this I need to script a interface to the shell, with the console
ansi escape sequences, whitch is fully transparent for the user.

Do you honestly plan to expose a command shell via CGI? Can you think of a
better way to allow hackers to wreak havoc on your system?
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- Tim Roberts, ti**@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

[Fuzzyman]

Tim Roberts wrote:

Slalomsk8er <ne**@slalomsk8 er.ch> wrote:

What do I want to do? I am building an admintool (deamon and client) andfor this I need to script a interface to the shell, with the console ansi escape sequences, whitch is fully transparent for the user.
Do you honestly plan to expose a command shell via CGI? Can you

think of a better way to allow hackers to wreak havoc on your system?
CGI is not a very good way of doing this - although I did implement a
*very* basic version that is on the Python Cookbook. The python
interpreter closes after executing a CGI... You could setup a long
running process on teh server that communicates with the CGI every time
it opens. I don't use Lunix systems myself... so I don't know how to
tell the client shell to communicate via the CGI

Regards,
Fuzzy
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- Tim Roberts, ti**@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.