Weird cgi error

Mon Feb 25 17:44:49 EST 2008

>
>> This is some kind of crooked game, right? Your code works fine on a
>> local server, and there's no reason why it shouldn't work just fine on
>> yours either. All you are changing is the standard input to the process.
>>
>> Since you claim to have spotted this specific error, perhaps you'd like
>> to explain just exactly how you came across it. I mean that's a pretty
>> specific input to test with ...
>>
>> Frankly I am not sure you are telling the truth about the code behind
>> that page. If you *are* then you'd better provide specifics: Python
>> version, Apache version, httpd.conf file, and so on. April 1 is still
>> over a month away.
>>
>> regards
>>   Steve
>>
>> PS: consider closing the <textarea> tag on the same line as the opening
>> tag to avoid spurious spaces in your pristine form.
>> --
>> Steve Holden        +1 571 484 6266   +1 800 494 3119
>> Holden Web LLC              http://www.holdenweb.com/
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> No, it's not a game, crookedgames.com is a mostly defunct games site
> that I was working on for a while.  I'm just hosting the script
> there.  What I am actually working on is a tool used to compare
> various things.  Check it out here:
> http://crookedgames.com/cgi-bin/Language_Comparison.py
> Here's some input you can use to test with:
>
> Cats
>   +2 Fuzzy
>   -1 Medium Maintenance
>
> Fish
>   +1 Low Maintenance
>   -1 Stupid
>
> Dogs
>   +2 Fuzzy
>   -2 High Maintenance
>
> (note that there's supposed to be two spaces before the +/- symbols --
> in case my formatting doesn't go through)
>
> I originally created that tool because I wanted to compare programming
> languages, python among them, thus leading me discover this issue.
>
> Now, I'm very new to this web development stuff (this is my first real
> app), so it's quite likely that I'm just doing something stupid, but I
> can't figure out what.
>
> I'm using LunarPages.  CPanel reports my Apache version as: 1.3.37
> (Unix)
>
> I added the line "print sys.version" to the test script, and that
> spits out: "2.3.4 (#1, Dec 11 2007, 05:27:57) [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red
> Hat 3.4.6-9)]"
>
> I can't find any file called httpd.conf.  It would be in /etc, right?
> I guess I don't have one.
>
> Still having the same problem.
>
> Here's the new contents of test.py:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import cgitb, sys
> cgitb.enable()
>
> print "Content-Type: text/html\n"
> print sys.version
> print """
> <html>
> <body>
>   <form action="test.py" method="post">
>     <textarea name="data"> </textarea>
>     <input type="submit" value="Submit">
>   </form>
> </body>
> </html>
> """
>
> It's not a joke, honest :)
> --
It just doesnt make sense to me. I guess we all agree that is not a python
problem, because that code does actually nothing but showing the form.