Pavol Murin schrieb: > hello python users, > > could you point me to a very simple (single file is best) web-server? > I want to serve a few web-forms and run some shell scripts when the > forms are submitted. I might add Ajax later (this is not a > requirement, if it only supports forms it's OK).
If you want to run shell scripts, you might want to search for a web server written in a shell script.... Running shell scripts which process CGI input are very insecure. It may be possible to write secure shell scripts, but I think it is not worth the trouble. Django contains a simple web server for testing. But it runs as a single process. So if one request needs long, all other requests wait. I don't think django is too heavy for a simple task. You can use CGIHTTPServer and the cgi module of the standard library, too. But it has drawbacks. One is, that CGIHTTPServer can't do a redirect. (HTTP code 302). I whish that there was a simple and small (not twisted) webserver written in Python which can be used in production. But I think there is none. Thomas BTW, use subprocess and not os.system() if you need to call other executables. > Longer story: > > I would like to provide a web-page for customization of an > application - it should run some shell commands as the user clicks > around in the page and at the end write a configuration file. I had a > look at the python wiki (http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebProgramming), > where various web servers and frameworks are listed. The frameworks > seem to heavy for such a simple task and BaseHTTPServer just seems to > be too light. So I took a look at the web-servers listed: > httpy had the last release 1,5 years ago, Medusa more than 5 years, > Twisted seems to be able to do a lot, so probably not the simple thing > I'm looking for. CherryPy looks promising, however it is still 89 > files (including some that can be removed). > > If CGIHTTPServer is a good answer, could you point me to a good > (nontrivial) example? > > thank you, muro -- Thomas Guettler, http://www.thomas-guettler.de/ E-Mail: guettli (*) thomas-guettler + de -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
