How do I return binary data from a python CGI called from CGIHTTPServer?

[Mark Wright]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<9f96kb01mq8 at enews1.newsguy.com>...
> "Mark Wright" <mwright at pro-ns.net> wrote in message
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> > But my original problem/question remains: how does a CGI program
> > return binary data on windows?  Is it even possible?  The problem is
> 
> python.exe must be run with option -u, to have binary standard input
> and output streams, rather than text ones as it has by default.
> 
> 
> Alex

This works correctly for 0x0a, but it still gets upset about 0x1a -
a.k.a. ctrl-Z, a.k.a. end of file.  If there's a ctrl-z in the output
of my CGI script CGIHTTPServer truncates the data.

At this point, I've given up using the standard CGIHTTPServer.  I've
created a modified version that runs python scripts inline, rather
than forking (well, popening - I'm on Win2k) a new process and piping
the output back to the client.  Problem solved.

Still, others out there must be returning binary data from a CGI
script on NT/2000, right?  How are they doing it?

Mark