Please Help with CGI Script!

Fri Apr 27 16:02:51 EDT 2001

Hi,
I'm trying to cobble together my first CGI script and running into 
problems. Here's the deal:
**an alien URL (around which I frame) will send me an HTTP_POST stream.
**I need to capture the stream
**I need to get the information to the client

How do I configure the URL the stream will come to? Easy enough on the 
alien host's page. Let's say he posts to rightHere.html. What do I do: 
build some kind of shell called by the same name? How do I hook it to the 
cgi script?

Once I get it, how do I get the info to the client? I was thinking of 
parsing it and reconfiguring it the way I want, then putting up a page 
named according to the datestamp so that I could load up as many as the 
client needed, then write a cron script to take them down after so long a 
time. Probably just easier to send an email. How do?

TIA,
BenO
Script follows:

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys # just for debugging purposes
import cgi
import time
import string
import os

form = cgi.FieldStorage()
print 'Content-type: text/html\n\n'

# specify the filename of the page to send the dealership
Report = repr(time.time()) + ".html"

# read the entire file as a string
def main():
   start = "<html><body>\nHere's the data a potential customer requested 
from the Kelley Blue Book link on your Web site:<br> <br>\n"
   FormData = open("/apache/vhosts/bladechevy/cgi-bin/kelleyblue.html","r")
   formstuff = ""
   while FormData.readline():
     safe = string.maketrans("`|~!@#$%^&*()_+=:;{}[]", 
"----------------------")
     line = 
string.replace(string.replace(string.replace(string.translate(FormData.readline(), 
safe), "<input type-\"hidden\" name-\"", "<tr><td>"), "\" value-\"", 
"</td><td>"), "\">", "</td></tr>\n")
     formstuff = string.join([formstuff,line])
   end = "</body></html>\n"
   all = string.join([start,formstuff,end])
   FormData.close()                    # close the file

if (__name__ == "__main__"):
   main()