placid wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Ive been reading about creating a HTTP server like the one pydoc
> creates (and studying pydoc source code). What i want to know, is it
> possible to create server that creates a webpage with hyperlinks that
> communicate back to the HTTP server, where each link accessed tells the
> server to execute some arbitrary command on local machine its running
> on?
>
> Cheers
Yes. It is possible.
Ok, seriously, I don't know how pydoc does it, but when I need a
quick-and-dirty http server [written in python] I use something like
this:
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer
from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
HTTPServer(('', 8000), SimpleHTTPRequestHandler).serve_forever()
For what you're asking about you'd probably want to use the
CGIHTTPRequestHandler from the CGIHTTPServer module instead. Check out
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-CGIHTTPServer.html
Then you'd just write one or more cgi scripts (they can be in python
IIRC) to run the commands you want.
HTH,
~Simon
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