Dan Perl wrote: > I am piggybacking on Hakan's original posting because I am addressing the > same group of people (those with good knowledge in the standard web > programming modules), on a related topic. However, my question is > independent of Hakan's. > > I have trouble getting a simple CGI script to work because it gets an empty > cgi.FieldStorage form. I have looked into and tried to debug the internals > of the standard modules that are used but I cannot figure it out: how is a > multipart POST request parsed by CGIHTTPServer? BTW, I am using pyton 2.4. > > I found the parsing of the header in the rfc822 module used by > BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler (through the mimetools module), but > that stops after the header (at the first empty line). Where is the parsing > done for the POST data following the header? I will appreciate any pointers > that will help me debug this problem. > > As a side note, I found other old reports of problems with cgi handling POST > requests, reports that don't seem to have had a resolution. There is even a > bug reported just a few days ago (1112856) that is exactly about multipart > post requests. If I understand the bug report correctly though, it is only > on the latest version in CVS and it states that what is in the 2.4 release > works. All this tells me that it could be a "fragile" part in the standard > library. So it could be even a bug in the standard library, but for now I > am assuming that I'm doing something wrong. > > Thanks, > > Dan
Dan, I was wondering how you were coming with your project. I had wondered if i had missed something going the CherryPy route instead of CGI. Now I see that you have had a bit of a snag , sorry to hear that. I am glad you are at least learning new things, 'cause if you had used CherryPy2 you would have be done by now :P M.E.Farmer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
