Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot

Dave Angel d at davea.name
Mon Jan 21 07:33:22 EST 2013


On 01/21/2013 01:25 AM, Ferrous Cranus wrote:
> Τη Σάββατο, 19 Ιανουαρίου 2013 10:01:15 μ.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Piet van Oostrum έγραψε:
>> Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> writes:

> While
>
> /home/nikos/public_html/cafebar-idea.gr/cgi-bin/counter.py
>
> that has also embedded this line:
>
> <a href="mailto:support at superhost.gr"> <img src="/data/images/mail.png"> </a>
>
> cannnot open the file normally.
>
> And the questions iw WHY since python script can open ANY filesystempath
> file the user has access too.
>

As Piet has said,Python is NOT opening the file mail.png.  When the html 
is sent to the browser, and the browser requests that image file, it's 
the server itself who figures out where the actual file is.  Python 
isn't involved at all.

-- 
DaveA



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