CGI script to count downloads

[Kragen Sitaker]

In article <3AC95ECE.B8F5E93E at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>,
Greg Ewing  <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>So, my question is, can I put anything in the
>headers of the response to give the browser a
>hint as to what name the file should be saved
>under?
>
>Or is there a better way of going about this
>whole counting business?

Perhaps you could make the URL end with download.py/foo/bar/baz.tar.gz
instead of using a query; then just use PATH_INFO instead of a form
value.  Is that possible?

>  #!/usr/local/cosc/bin/python
>  print "Content-Type: compressed/gzip"

I don't think that's correct ;)

>  form = cgi.FieldStorage()
>  path = form["file"].value
>  f = open(path)

Yow.  file=/etc/passwd, anyone?  At least this isn't Perl, where
file=|sh would work :)

Doesn't appear you're actually counting yet.  Be sure to flock when
you do :)


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