cgi post problem

Tue Sep 24 16:37:04 EDT 2002

These two files worked for me (see below). Let me know if you have any more 
problems.

Regards,
        Jeff

-------------py2.cgi--------------------------
#!/usr/bin/python2.2                                                            
import cgi

def main():
    try:
        form = cgi.FieldStorage()
        input = form.keys()

        print "Content-type: text/html"
        print
        print("""<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>                                 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN'                               
'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd'>                                 
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'>                           
<head>                                                                              
<title>test</title>                                                         
</head>                                                                         
<body>""")
        print "<p>",input,"</p>"
        print "</body></html>"
    except:
        pass

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

---------------py2.html------------------------------------------
<html>
<body>

<form action="py2.cgi" method="post">
     <input type="text" name="Name" size="20" />
     <input type="text" name="PartNumber" size="20" />
     <input type="text" name="Inventory" size="20" />
     <input type="text" name="Cost" size="20" />
     <input type="text" name="WholesalePrice" size="20" />
    <input type="submit" value="Update Records" />
</form>

</body>
</html>

jano wrote:

> There was an error in my prior post.  See ^^^^
> 
> 
> "jano" <notvalid at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:amq8av$2cum$1 at agate.berkeley.edu...
>>
>>
>> "Jeff Davis" <jdavis at empires.org> wrote in message
>> news:9aWj9.39314$V7.10439005 at twister.socal.rr.com...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > It looks as though you have a lot of code. It might be helpful to try
>> > to narrow the problem further by removing a lot of the code unrelated
>> > to
> your
>> > problem, which appears to be that "keys" does not contain any items.
> After
>> > you work that out, then put the other code back in.
>> >
>> > My first impression is that you have some "weird" form element names
>> > because they contain the "/" character. That might be perfectly legal,
> but
>> > perhaps the cgi.FieldStorage class does not properly handle such
>> > element names, or perhaps it considers such names erroneous.
>> >
>> > Next, it seems that the line "keys = form.keys()" might be out of
>> alignment
>> > with the rest of the code in it's block. Perhaps it's just the way it
>> > looks after you copied your code into the post.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >         Jeff
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, the problem is that keys does not contain any items.  The 'weird'
> names
>> are not the problem, because i tried it also with regular 1-word names
>> (no
>> slashes), with the same results.  Also, the keys=form.keys() line is
>> properly indented in the code -- it was just a copy/paste problem.  Here
> is
>> the code again, with the extraneous stuff stripped out:
>>
>> #!/usr/local/bin/python
>>
>> import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
>> import sys, traceback, cgi
>>
>> def main():
>>     try:
>>         form = cgi.FieldStorage()
>>         input = form.keys()
>>
>>         print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
>>         print("""<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
>>         <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN'
>> 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd'>
>>         <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'>
>>             <head>
>>                 <title>test</title>
>>             </head>
>>             <body>""")
>>         print "<p>",keys,"</p>"
> 
> #                              ^^^^ should be 'input' not 'keys', as it
> #                              is
> in my script.
> 
>>         print "</body></html>"
>>    except:
>>         pass
>>
>> if __name__ == "__main__":
>>      main()
>>
>> And the form is:
>>
>> <form action="http://someurl.com/cgi-bin/updatexml.py" method="post">
>>      <input type="text" name="Name" size="20" />
>>      <input type="text" name="PartNumber" size="20" />
>>      <input type="text" name="Inventory" size="20" />
>>      <input type="text" name="Cost" size="20" />
>>      <input type="text" name="WholesalePrice" size="20" />
>>     <input type="submit" value="Update Records" />
>> </form>
>>
>>
>> The script, again, is currently just supposed to return the keys, which
>> I
> am
>> expecting to be Name, PartNumber, etc., but it returns only an empty
>> list. Any ideas.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> jano
>>
>>
>>