On 22 Okt, 10:34, sami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > See the library reference for information on how to get the value of > > form/request parameters from the CGI environment: > > >http://docs.python.org/lib/node561.html > > > Paul > > Thanks again Paul - now I can see that the "request" object is a > string of name/value pairs that occurs after a "?" in a url e.g. > url.com/index.cgi?name=sami&lang=python - is that correct? Googling > for this information is useless since the word "request" is so common > on the www
The string after "?" in a URL is actually the "query string" and is typically exposed as the QUERY_STRING environment variable in CGI. See here for more specific details: http://www.w3.org/CGI/ http://cgi-spec.golux.com/ What the cgi module provides is some conveniences for automatically decoding the query string - perhaps not *so* difficult, you might think, even taking the decoding of encoded values into account (such as things like "%20" that you find in URLs) - but the cgi module also provides facilities to decode request parameters that are supplied in the body of a request (such as those provided in POST requests), and that can be a more difficult exercise. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
