Python & cgi on win98--tinyweb problems, etc

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Mon Nov 19 01:56:40 EST 2001


Chris Stromberger <bit_bucket5 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>How about the HttpServer class that's already in the Python library?
>
>Hadn't thought of that.  Do you mean CGIHTTPServer?  The docs say
>"Note: This module is Unix dependent since it creates the CGI process
>using os.fork() and os.exec()." so that won't work for win98, unless
>I'm missing something.

The documentation is out of date.  CGIHTTPServer checks to see if the
system has fork, and if not, it does it another way.  It works fine on
Windows.
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- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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