Help: I want a chat script!
Flavian Hardcastle
deathtospam43423 at altavista.com
Mon Feb 11 16:03:09 EST 2002
only at example.com wrote in
news:oNz98.2509$q95.1624800457 at newssvr21.news.prodigy.com:
> Okay... you're a little confused about where the data from your form is
> going. The data will not be STORED in script.cgi ... script.cgi is
> supposed to be a program (in this case, a python program) that processes
> all of the VARIABLES (e.g. name, etc) from your form. Take a look at the
> tutorial Devshed has and you will begin to understand how cgi works.
>
> http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Python/CGI/page1.html
>
> Hope this helps.
>
Thanx! You hit the nail right on the head. I was under the false impression
that the script was merely some sort of blank file that the browser
deposits raw data into.
I will work through that tutorial. If I have any more trouble I'll post em
here if that's ok.
>
> In article <mailman.1013350037.30507.python-list at python.org>, "Chris
> Gonnerman" <chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> wrote:
>
>> ----- 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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