Hi everyone. I'm trying to code an HTML file on my computer to make it work with the cgi module. For some reason I can't get it running. This is my HTML script:
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<form method="post" action="C:\chris_on_c\hacking\formprinter.py"> <b><i><font size="50">HOWDY!</font></b></i><br><br>
<input type="text" name="name" size="50" value=""><br><br>
<input type="submit" name="send" value="submit"> </form>
You don't seem to be using a web server at all here - the form action is a file path, not a URL. So the browser is just going to the file system to get the .py file.
You can make a simple CGI server by - create a directory caled cgi-bin - put formprinter.py into it - change the form action to action="/cgi-bin/formprinter.py" - Open a dos console to the directory containing the cgi-bin directory - run the command python -c "import CGIHTTPServer; CGIHTTPServer.test()"
(Don't do this with Python 2.4, it is broken - use 2.3 or 2.4.1)
Kent
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And here is the python program it's supposed to run with, formprinter.py:
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import cgi, cgitb cgitb.enable()
form = cgi.FieldStorage() print '<font size="12">%s</font><br>' % form['name']
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Whenever I press submit on the HTML document, it returns the code for "formprinter.py". Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
-Thanks for any help!
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