Standalone CGI Server - Question for Group

[ingo]

in news:67abb823.0203290500.3a3a7da1 at posting.google.com Sloth wrote:

> On the other hand, less is more in
> this scenario and, frankly, now I'm just being stubborn and trying to
> get Python to act as its own CGI server.

---%<------%<---
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer
from CGIHTTPServer import CGIHTTPRequestHandler
import os

port = 80
serv = HTTPServer(('', port), CGIHTTPRequestHandler)
print "Running Web Server at port: ", port
serv.serve_forever()
---%<------%<---

Then point your browser to http:\\localhost\somehtmlfile.html

Ingo