Unicode in cgi-script with apache2

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Le samedi 16 août 2014 13:17:16 UTC+2, Peter Otten a écrit :
> Dominique Ramaekers wrote:
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> > I've got a little script:
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> > 
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> > #!/usr/bin/env python3
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> > print("Content-Type: text/html")
> 
> > print("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate")    # HTTP/1.1
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> > print("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT") # Date in the past
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> > print("")
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> > f = open("/var/www/cgi-data/index.html", "r")
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> > for line in f:
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> >      print(line,end='')
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> > 
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> > If I run the script in the terminal, it nicely prints the webpage
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> > 'index.html'.
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> > 
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> > If access the script through a webbrowser, apache gives an error:
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> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
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> > 1791: ordinal not in range(128)
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> > 
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> > I've done a hole afternoon of reading on fora and blogs, I don't have a
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> > solution.
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> > 
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> > Can anyone help me?
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> 
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> If the input and output encoding are the same you can avoid the byte-to-text 
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> (and subsequent text-to-byte conversion) and serve the binary contents of 
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> the index.html file directly:
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> 
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python3
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> import sys
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> 
> 
> print("Content-Type: text/html")
> 
> print("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate")    # HTTP/1.1
> 
> print("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT") # Date in the past
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> print("")
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> sys.stdout.flush()
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> with open("/var/www/cgi-data/index.html", "rb") as f:
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>     for line in f:
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>         sys.stdout.buffer.write(line)
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> 
> 
> The flush() is necessary to write pending data before accessing the lowlevel 
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> stdout.buffer. Instead of the loop you can use any of these:
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> sys.stdout.buffer.write(f.read()) # not for huge files, but should be OK for
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>                                   # typical html file sizes
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> sys.stdout.buffer.writelines(f)
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> shutil.copyfileobj(f, sys.stdout.buffer) # show off your knowledge 
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>                                          # of the stdlib ;)
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> 
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> 
> 
> Alternatively you could choose an encoding via the locale:
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> 
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> #!/usr/bin/env python3
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> import locale
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> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8")
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> 
> 
> print("Content-Type: text/html")
> 
> print("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate")    # HTTP/1.1
> 
> print("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT") # Date in the past
> 
> print("")
> 
> with open("/var/www/cgi-data/index.html") as f:
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>     for line in f:
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>         print(line, end='')
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> 
> 
> Python should then use UTF-8 as the default for i/o and the resulting 
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> scripts looks more familiar.

Wrong. It will not work with a Japanese or a Korean iso-2022-xx
html file.

jmf