ActivePython2.0 - Server Side objects for ASP problem

[Satheesh Babu]

Hi Steve,

That worked! Thanks...

My actual requirement is not to gather HTML pages (I've one for that in 100%
python ASP
and by setting a BASE HREF, it works fine). I have this proprietary software
from a vendor
which runs a server on some port and it accepts some commands on that port.
My requirement
is to generate these commands on the fly, send it to this server and get
response, from many
ASP pages. I don't know how to do network programming in ASP/VBScript. In
Python I've
already written something which works, using socket library. My initial
thought was to embed
that Python code into my ASP scripts - won't work since ASP (atleast my
installation) doesn't
allow mixing of different languages. Making a COM object on the server is
also beyond me.
So, I got this idea and was just checking it out.

Many thanks again


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v.s.babu
vsbabu at erols.com
http://vsbabu.csoft.net
"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in message
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> "Satheesh Babu" <vsbabu at erols.com> wrote in message
> news:93j0qi$7cv$1 at bob.news.rcn.net...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to use a server side python object to be called from a
VBScript
> > ASP code.
> > It works nicely for simple things. When I try to use urllib functions, I
> get
> > an error. Any
> > idea? The second function works nicely. I'm using Win98, PWS with
> Build202.
> > I'll try
> > on NT4.0 IIS tomorrow. Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > ----------------- ASP file -----------------
> > <% @LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" %>
> > <!--#include file="pymod.asp"-->
> > <%= SlurpURL("http://vsbabu.csoft.net/") %>
> > <%= CapitalizeIt("the first letter should be capitalized") %>
> >
> > ----------------pymod.asp------------------
> > <script language='python' runat='server'>
> > from urllib import *
> > from string import *
>
> # Is this safe? from module import * is often not a good idea unless
> # the module has been designed with that in mind...
>
> >
> > def SlurpURL(i_url):
> >     f = urlopen(i_url)
>
> # Try changing preceding line to read f = urlopen(str(i_url))
>
> >     o_data = f.read()
> >     f.close()
> >     return o_data
> >
> > def CapitalizeIt(i_str)
> >     return capitalize(i_str)
>
> # Maybe this would need to be return capitalize(str(i_str)) as well
>
> >
> >
> > </script>
> > ------------------ error message -----------------
> > Python ActiveX Scripting Engine error '80020009'
> >
> > Traceback (innermost last): File "<Script Block >", line 4, in SlurpURL
f
> =
> > urlopen(i_url) File "c:\python20\lib\urllib.py", line 61, in urlopen
> return
> > _urlopener.open(url) File "c:\python20\lib\urllib.py", line 166, in open
> > return getattr(self, name)(url) File "c:\python20\lib\urllib.py", line
> 248,
> > in open_http host, selector = url ValueError: unpack sequence of wrong
> size
> >
> > ?
> >
> > host, selector = url
> >
> > ======================
>
> With the changes above I get *something* other than an error message in my
> browser window, but of course because you aren't re-interpreting the HTML
as
> you pass it through, all the links are broken and no graphics appear.
>
> You might want to consider adding a <BASE> tag to your page, quoting the
> original URL and therefore persuading your browser to interpret embedded
> URLs correctly.
>
> regards
>  Steve
>
>