Thanks for your reply. The reason I want to run it as CGI (even though mod_php is available on my local computer) is that the target machine to which I will finally be uploading my scripts runs CGI.
cgihandler should work just like CGI. Any clue why the cgi.FieldStorage()might not be working ? On Jun 12, 7:59 pm, Graham Dumpleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 13, 1:17 am,arorap<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've mod_php installed with Apache 2.2. In one of my folders, I'm > > using the cgihandler as the PythonHandler as my target host runs > > python only as CGI. Here cgi.FieldStorage() doesn't seem to work. I > > can see the form data in sys.stdin but cgi.FieldStorage() returns an > > empty dictionary. Here's the code for the test script I am posting to > > - > > > -- > > #!/usr/bin/python > > > import os > > import cgi > > import sys > > > print "Content Type: text/plain\n\n" > > print "Hello CGI World !\n" > > > for key in os.environ: > > print key + "= " + os.environ[key] > > > print cgi.FieldStorage() > > > print sys.stdin.read() > > -- > > > And here's the output I see .. > > > -- > > Hello CGI World ! > > > HTTP_REFERER=http://learnpython/form.htm > > SERVER_SOFTWARE= Apache/2.2.4 (Win32)mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.1 > > SCRIPT_NAME= /mptest.py > > SERVER_SIGNATURE= > > REQUEST_METHOD= POST > > SERVER_PROTOCOL= HTTP/1.1 > > QUERY_STRING= abc=ayz > > PATH= C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer;;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C: > > \WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;q:\bin;m:\cm\clearcase\bin;M:\PERL\NT > > \EXEC\BIN;m:\cm\clearcase\bin\nt;M:\Perl\NT\EXEC\BIN;m:\perl\nt\exec > > \bin;m:\cm\clearcase\utils;q:\bin;m:\opus;m:\tvcs;C:\highc331\bin;C: > > \Program Files\Rational\ClearCase\bin;C:\Program Files\Rational\common > > CONTENT_LENGTH= 86 > > HTTP_USER_AGENT= Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; > > SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) > > HTTP_CONNECTION= Keep-Alive > > SERVER_NAME= learnpython > > REMOTE_ADDR= 127.0.0.1 > > PATHEXT= .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH > > SERVER_PORT= 80 > > SERVER_ADDR= 127.0.0.1 > > DOCUMENT_ROOT= D:/Projects/LearnPython/www > > COMSPEC= C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe > > SCRIPT_FILENAME= D:/Projects/LearnPython/www/mptest.py > > SERVER_ADMIN= [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > HTTP_HOST= learnpython > > SystemRoot= C:\WINDOWS > > HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL= no-cache > > REQUEST_URI= /mptest.py?abc=ayz > > HTTP_ACCEPT= */* > > WINDIR= C:\WINDOWS > > GATEWAY_INTERFACE= Python-CGI/1.1 > > REMOTE_PORT= 1081 > > HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE= en-us > > CONTENT_TYPE= application/x-www-form-urlencoded > > HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING= gzip, deflate > > > FieldStorage(None, None, []) > > > firstName=puneet&address=hawaii > > -- > > > I am posting to this script using a form with two text fields named > > firstName and address. > > > any clue where am I going wrong ? > > You don't need mod_python/cgihandler to run CGI scripts. Rather than > bring mod_python into the picture and confuse things, set up Apache to > run your script as a traditional CGI script instead. > > BTW, the fact that mod_python is loaded means that CGI scripts aren't > the only way of using Python available to you as you seem to think. > So, suggest you do some research as to what the differences are > between CGI and mod_python. > > Graham -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
