HttpServer help!

[Eric Texier]

req = HTTP("10.16.3.132:2112") works
Thanks You



Steve Holden wrote:

> "Eric Texier" <erict at millfilm.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:3CFF6568.7EE613CE at millfilm.co.uk...
> > The server and the client run from the same directory.
> > and the cgi file is in the same directory.
> >
> > all the following failled.
> > req.putrequest("POST", "favquote.cgi")
> > req.putrequest("POST", "/favquote.cgi")
> > req.putrequest("POST", "./favquote.cgi")
> >
> >
> > What is the meaning of  *relative to the server root*
> >
> Well, I was kind of assuming that the server was written to run CGI scripts,
> but I think on further examination I was wrong. The "server root" is the
> directopry that the server looks in when you request a document like
> http://server:port/index.html -- it's the top-level content directory of a
> web server, which may have subdirectories, and so on.
>
> From your server code:
>
> # start the server on port 2112, requires browser URLs
> # to be addressed as http://servername:2112/pathtofile
> myServer = HTTPServer(('', 2112), myRequestHandler)
>
> This has one obvious implictaion you seem to have overlooked. Your call in
> the client
>
>     req = HTTP("10.16.3.132")
>
> is trying to connect to the default port, port 80. You may need to change
> this to
>
>     req = HTTP("10.16.3.132:2112")
>
> It looks, from the code of the server, as though *any* POST request will
> result in the same output, so the path you request maybe isn't that
> important. Although I haven't read Fred's book yet, I am guessing that the
> .putrequest() method assumes you are already connected to the server, and
> that the HTTP() object will allow you to put a port number after the IP
> address.
>
> If this isn't the case, try writing an HTML page containing a form whose
> action attribute is something like
>
>     ACTION="10.16.3.132:2112/something"
>
> and see if submitting that displays a response in the browser.
>
> regards
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