python cgi problem with textarea

[placid]

On Apr 22, 4:08 pm, Adrian Smith <adrian_p_sm... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This may be more a cgi thing than a Python one, but I'm trying to get
> this page:
>
> http://adrian10.phpwebhosting.com/trial.html
>
> consisting basically of this:
>
> <FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/python3.cgi" METHOD="POST">
> <TEXTAREA NAME="essay" COLS=60 ROWS=20 WRAP=HARD></TEXTAREA>
> <P><INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="submit" NAME="submitbutton">
> </FORM>
>
> ...to print out the contents of the textarea with this cgi script:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import cgi
> print "Content-type: text/html\n"
> form = cgi.FieldStorage()
> print form["essay"].value
>
> ...and I get an internal server error if I have any spaces in the
> textarea, which is really going to limit its usefulness to me. Oddly,
> it seems to work for a friend in the UK who's looked at it, but it
> doesn't work for me here in Japan.

i just tried it and its working. here it is

http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~bevcimen/form.html

maybe the internal server error is because mod_python isn't installed
assuming your using Apache as your web server

Cheers