Casey Bralla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got a python cgi-bin application which produces an apache web page. I > want to pass arguments to it on the URL line, but the parameters are not > getting passed along to python properly. > > I've been using sys.argv to pick up command line arguments, and it works > fine when I call the python program from the command line. Unfortunately, > when I pass data to the program from the URL, many of the parameters are > being clobbered and **NOT** passed to python. > > For example: "http://www.nobody.com/cgi-bin/program.py?sort=ascending"; only > passes the parameter "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/program.py".
This is expected. > However, "http://www.nobody.com/cgi-bin/program.py?sort%20ascending"; passes > a 2-place tuple of ("/usr/lib/cgi-bin/program.py", "sort > ascending"). I don't know why this actually works, it's not (AFAIK) defined behaviour. > Somehow, adding the "=" in the argument list prevents **ANY** parameters > from being passed to python. I could re-write the python program to work > around this, but I sure would like to understand it first. You're going to have to rewrite. CGI scripts get their arguments passed to them through the environment, not on the command line. QUERY_STRING, for instance, will hold the query string (the stuff after the ?). Use Python's cgi module to make things easier on yourself; the documentation has a good overview: http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/module-cgi.html In this case, your script would look something like this: import cgi form = cgi.FieldStorage() if form.getvalue('sort') == 'ascending': ... sort in ascending order ... etc. -- |>|\/|< /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |David M. Cooke |cookedm(at)physics(dot)mcmaster(dot)ca -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
