Hi Peter, Your code seems interesting.
I've tried using sys.stdout (in a slightly different form) but it gave the same error.
I also read about people who fixed the error by changing the servers locale to en_US.UTF-8. The people who posted these fixes also said that you can only use en_US.UTF-8 (and not ex. nl_BE.UTF8)... Anyway, It didn't work for me. And I find this a dirty fix because, I don't want to use US locale...
Please excuse me not to try out your specific solutions. I've already started to implement WSGI over CGI. See my previous message...
grz Op 16-08-14 om 13:17 schreef Peter Otten:
Dominique Ramaekers wrote:I've got a little script: #!/usr/bin/env python3 print("Content-Type: text/html") print("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate") # HTTP/1.1 print("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT") # Date in the past print("") f = open("/var/www/cgi-data/index.html", "r") for line in f: print(line,end='') If I run the script in the terminal, it nicely prints the webpage 'index.html'. If access the script through a webbrowser, apache gives an error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1791: ordinal not in range(128) I've done a hole afternoon of reading on fora and blogs, I don't have a solution. Can anyone help me?If the input and output encoding are the same you can avoid the byte-to-text (and subsequent text-to-byte conversion) and serve the binary contents of the index.html file directly: #!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys print("Content-Type: text/html") print("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate") # HTTP/1.1 print("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT") # Date in the past print("") sys.stdout.flush() with open("/var/www/cgi-data/index.html", "rb") as f: for line in f: sys.stdout.buffer.write(line) The flush() is necessary to write pending data before accessing the lowlevel stdout.buffer. Instead of the loop you can use any of these: sys.stdout.buffer.write(f.read()) # not for huge files, but should be OK for # typical html file sizes sys.stdout.buffer.writelines(f) shutil.copyfileobj(f, sys.stdout.buffer) # show off your knowledge # of the stdlib ;) Alternatively you could choose an encoding via the locale: #!/usr/bin/env python3 import locale locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8") print("Content-Type: text/html") print("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate") # HTTP/1.1 print("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT") # Date in the past print("") with open("/var/www/cgi-data/index.html") as f: for line in f: print(line, end='') Python should then use UTF-8 as the default for i/o and the resulting scripts looks more familiar.
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