rodmc schrieb: > -- sorry if this has shown up twice, but my browser crashed and ended > up posting the message when I hit the space bar for some odd reason. > Also it was not quite ready. > > Hi, > > I am writing a small CGI app which tests if another webpage exists, > the pages are on a Wiki system. Anyway when I run the same function > (see below) from within IDLE it is ok, however when it is run from > within the CGI script I get a socket error:: > > "URLError: > reason = <socket.error instance>" > > I am not quite sure what is causing this, is there a special way of > dealing with such things from within CGI script? I have pasted the > offending function below, along with only the import statement which > relates to that function. > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Kind regards, > > rod > > From the CGI version: > > from urllib2 import urlopen as urlopen > > def urlexists(url): > path="http://x.y.z/wiki/index.php?title="+url > sock = urlopen(path) > page=sock.read() > if "There is currently no text in this page" in page: > return True > else: > return False > > Ammended IDLE version: > > from urllib2 import urlopen as urlopen > import os,sys > > def urlexists(url): > path="http://x.y.z/wiki/index.php?title="+url > sock = urlopen(path) > page=sock.read() > if "There is currently no text in this page" in page: > print "found" > return True > else: > print "not found" > return False > > if __name__=="__main__": > urlexists("cheese_test")
Are you using the same user in your cgi script and within IDLE? Ralf Schoenian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
