CGI on Windows

[Rainer Mansfeld]

Hi all,

I'm running the following script as a minimalistic CGI server on
Windows ME:

   httpd.py
   --------
   from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer
   from CGIHTTPServer import CGIHTTPRequestHandler

   server = HTTPServer(("", 8080), CGIHTTPRequestHandler)
   server.serve_forever()

This works fine showing html files and even running python scripts.
However if I try something like
http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/Test.py?key=123
using the following script:

   Test.py
   -------
   import cgi

   form = cgi.FieldStorage()
   value = form.getfirst('key', "???")

   print "Content-Type: text/html"
   print
   print "value = %s" % value

it shows 'value = ???' in the browswer.
In other words cgi.FieldStorage is empty.
Using a form and the 'POST' method doesn't help either.

On a 'real' Internet server (Linux/Apache) the same script works
without problems. So my conclusion is, that either the CGIHTTPServer
or the cgi module don't work on Windows, but I can't find anything
about this issue in the documentation or using Google.
Any hints?

Thanks in advance

    Rainer