[Tutor] bug hunt

[Kirk Bailey]

Pity. The cgiserver module builds a dictionary with all the environment 
variables in it for a script to use. THEY EXIST ALREADY. But there is no 
provision for parsing a .shtml script, detecting ssi tags, and replacing them 
with the required output. Therefore, this server could not handle an imbedded 
hit counter in a webpage, nor imbed script output as part of a page. And quite a 
number of servers apart from apache honor ssi.

So close, and yet so far...

A.M. Kuchling wrote:

> 
> On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 11:27  AM, Kirk Bailey wrote:
> 
>> The servers do not respect ssi includes. Yet the modules list code to 
>> handle such, although I am not up to speed enough to debug them. As 
>> this is defined in the modules, I have the qurious duty to repport a 
>> possible bug in the cgiHTTPServer.py module.
> 
> 
> I don't believe anything in the Python core has ever supported 
> server-side includes; they're mostly an Apache thing.
> 
> --amk
> 
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