Weird cgi error

Mon Feb 25 07:55:49 EST 2008

Jesse Aldridge wrote:

>I uploaded the following script, called "test.py", to my webhost.
>It works find except when I input the string "python ".  Note that's
>the word "python" followed by a space.  If I submit that I get a 403
>error.  It seems to work fine with any other string.
>What's going on here?
>
>Here's the script in action: http://crookedgames.com/cgi-bin/test.py
>
>Here's the code:
>
>#!/usr/bin/python
>print "Content-Type: text/html\n"
>print """
><html>
><body>
>  <form action="test.py" method="post">
>    <textarea name="data">
>    </textarea>
>  <INPUT type="submit" value="Submit">
>  </form>
></body>
></html>
>"""
>  
>
If you cant have access to the apache (?) error_log, you can put this in 
your code:
import cgitb
cgitb.enable()

Which should trap what is being writed on the error stream and put it on 
the cgi output.

Gerardo