Help: I want a chat script!

[Flavian Hardcastle]

"Chris Gonnerman" <chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> wrote in 
news:mailman.1013350037.30507.python-list at python.org:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Flavian Hardcastle" <deathtospam43423 at altavista.com>
> 
> 
>> "Chris Gonnerman" <chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> wrote in
>> news:mailman.1013316023.10782.python-list at python.org: 
>> 
>> > "PERL type CGI's" should be read "scripts".  You can't run Python,
>> > Perl, Ruby,
>> > Lua, etc. from this particular server.
>> > 
>> > Try Xitami.  It is quite compatible with Python.  http://xitami.com
>> > 
>> Thanx. I'm downloading it as we speak. 
> 
> I have used it a little; Steve Holden wrote about it in his book which
> I just finished reading.
>  
>> So with this server, will I be able to just send info direct from my 
>> browser form to a file? If I can do that, then I'm up and running. 
> 
> I'm not sure what you are saying here.  You don't send info "to a 
> file," you send it to a CGI script.  Your script must handle the data 
> from there.
> 
>> [snip]
>> > 
>> > The form looks good, but where is script.cgi?
>> > 
>> In the same directory as the html form, cgi-bin.
> 
> Ah... what I meant was, that you should *post* the source to 
> script.cgi.  Anyway, if your form is HTML it is bad form to have it in 
> the cgi-bin folder.
> 
> GENERALLY (though it's not real safe to say this) CGI scripts can be 
> stored in the cgi-bin folder, or in the htdocs/html/webroot folder; 
> this depends on webserver settings.  The Xitami default allows CGI 
> scripts only in the cgi-bin folder, but you can define that cgi-bin is 
> actually the same as webroot.  Xitami recognizes executable files by 
> extension on Windows, so your script should likely be called script.py 
> (assuming it is Python).
> 
> Gah.  So.  Put script.py in the Xitami cgi-bin folder, and your form in 
> the Xitami webpages folder, and if you are using the default 
> configuration, you should be in good shape.  Start Xitami and then surf 
> to http://localhost/yourform.html (whatever you called it) and when you 
> click the Submit button, the form data is sent to 
> http://localhost/cgi-bin/script.py (which should be in the action= 
> attribute of the form tag, perhaps abbreviated as /cgi-bin/script.py).  
> The script receives the data, does whatever, and then must send a new 
> page to the web browser... this is why I want to see your script.
> 
> 
> 
> 
Thanx. I'm working out how to write a script at the moment, following the 
tutorial at http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Python/CGI/ . May I get back 
to you if I have any difficulties? 


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