python cgi problem with textarea

[Graham Dumpleton]

On Apr 22, 11:09 pm, placid <Bul... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

You do not need mod_python installed to be able to run CGI scripts,
thus has nothing to do with mod_python.

Graham