Unicode in cgi-script with apache2

[Dominique Ramaekers]

Hi Denis,

This error is a python error displayed in the apache error log. The 
complete message is:
[Sat Aug 16 23:12:42.158326 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 29327] [client 
119.63.193.196:11110] AH01215: Traceback (most recent call last):
[Sat Aug 16 23:12:42.158451 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 29327] [client 
119.63.193.196:11110] AH01215:   File "/var/www/cgi-python/index.html", 
line 12, in <module>
[Sat Aug 16 23:12:42.158473 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 29327] [client 
119.63.193.196:11110] AH01215:     for line in f:
[Sat Aug 16 23:12:42.158526 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 29327] [client 
119.63.193.196:11110] AH01215:   File 
"/usr/lib/python3.4/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
[Sat Aug 16 23:12:42.158569 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 29327] [client 
119.63.193.196:11110] AH01215:     return codecs.ascii_decode(input, 
self.errors)[0]
[Sat Aug 16 23:12:42.158663 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 29327] [client 
119.63.193.196:11110] AH01215: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't 
decode byte 0xc3 in position 1791: ordinal not in range(128)

If I access the file index.html directly from the brower, It renders fine...

I've done a lot of testing. I put my findings in a previous message.

Thanks anyway.

grz

Op 16-08-14 om 18:40 schreef Denis McMahon:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:10:25 +0200, Dominique Ramaekers wrote:
>
>> #!/usr/bin/env python3
>> 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("")
>> f = open("/var/www/cgi-data/index.html", "r")
>> for line in f:
>>       print(line,end='')
>>
>> If I run the script in the terminal, it nicely prints the webpage
>> 'index.html'.
>>
>> If access the script through a webbrowser, apache gives an error:
>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
>> 1791: ordinal not in range(128)
> Is this a message appearing in the apache error log or in the browser? If
> it is appearing in the browser, this is probably apache passing through a
> python error message.
>
> Is this the complete error message?
>
> What happens when you try and access http://[server]/cgi-data/index.html
> directly in a web browser? You may need to copy the file to a different
> directory to do this depending on the apache configuration.
>