On 2013-09-26, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >> Since CGI uses stdout for the finished product, it could have used stdin for >> the input. > > Haven't used CGI in years, but I thought POST data came on stdin?
Yes. The user data is read via stdin. The stuff passed via the environemnt "dictionary" is meta-data (stuff from the HTTP request headers, and stuff synthesized by the HTTP server). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! ! Now I understand at advanced MICROBIOLOGY and gmail.com th' new TAX REFORM laws!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list