> >> This is some kind of crooked game, right? Your code works fine on a >> local server, and there's no reason why it shouldn't work just fine on >> yours either. All you are changing is the standard input to the process. >> >> Since you claim to have spotted this specific error, perhaps you'd like >> to explain just exactly how you came across it. I mean that's a pretty >> specific input to test with ... >> >> Frankly I am not sure you are telling the truth about the code behind >> that page. If you *are* then you'd better provide specifics: Python >> version, Apache version, httpd.conf file, and so on. April 1 is still >> over a month away. >> >> regards >> Steve >> >> PS: consider closing the <textarea> tag on the same line as the opening >> tag to avoid spurious spaces in your pristine form. >> -- >> Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 >> Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ > > Thanks for the reply. > > No, it's not a game, crookedgames.com is a mostly defunct games site > that I was working on for a while. I'm just hosting the script > there. What I am actually working on is a tool used to compare > various things. Check it out here: > http://crookedgames.com/cgi-bin/Language_Comparison.py > Here's some input you can use to test with: > > Cats > +2 Fuzzy > -1 Medium Maintenance > > Fish > +1 Low Maintenance > -1 Stupid > > Dogs > +2 Fuzzy > -2 High Maintenance > > (note that there's supposed to be two spaces before the +/- symbols -- > in case my formatting doesn't go through) > > I originally created that tool because I wanted to compare programming > languages, python among them, thus leading me discover this issue. > > Now, I'm very new to this web development stuff (this is my first real > app), so it's quite likely that I'm just doing something stupid, but I > can't figure out what. > > I'm using LunarPages. CPanel reports my Apache version as: 1.3.37 > (Unix) > > I added the line "print sys.version" to the test script, and that > spits out: "2.3.4 (#1, Dec 11 2007, 05:27:57) [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red > Hat 3.4.6-9)]" > > I can't find any file called httpd.conf. It would be in /etc, right? > I guess I don't have one. > > Still having the same problem. > > Here's the new contents of test.py: > > #!/usr/bin/python > import cgitb, sys > cgitb.enable() > > print "Content-Type: text/html\n" > print sys.version > print """ > <html> > <body> > <form action="test.py" method="post"> > <textarea name="data"> </textarea> > <input type="submit" value="Submit"> > </form> > </body> > </html> > """ > > It's not a joke, honest :) > -- It just doesnt make sense to me. I guess we all agree that is not a python problem, because that code does actually nothing but showing the form.
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