On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:14:59 +0000, MRAB <goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
Muddy Coder wrote:
Hi Folks,
My previous post got a many helps from the people, and I tested what
they suggested. Since this topic maybe needed in future, so I drop
these lines below to help the future programmers. The methods worked
as below:
1. This method was suggested by Cameron Laird:
os.system("start %s" % URL)
It works. But, if the URL contains character &, it will fail. For
example, if URL has only one field, such as:
http://www.mydomain.com/ascript.cgi?user=muddy
this method works well. But, if there more than one field need to be
input, such as http://www.mydomain.com/ascript.cgi/user=muddy&password=foo,
the field password failed to reach server, and the CGI script
complained.
You could put quotes around the URL:
os.startfile('"%s"' % URL)
or:
os.system('start "%s"' % URL)
if "&" has a special meaning to the command-line.
What if the URL has a " in it? Worse, what if the URL is:
" & rm -rf ~
os.system is a pretty bad thing to use. Fortunately, the suggestion to
use urllib was a much better one, and you can't use os.system here anyway
since the poster is interested in getting the contents of the page at the
URL.
Jean-Paul
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