Python CGI

/var/www/cgi-bin

EXAMPLE 1:

#!/usr/bin/python

print "Content-type: text/html"

print

print ""

print ""

print ""

print "

"

print "Name:
"

print "Title:
"

print "E-Mail:
"

print ""

print "

"

print "

"

print "

"

#!/usr/bin/python

print "Content-type: text/html"

import cgi

print "Content-type: text/html"

print

form = cgi.FieldStorage()

name = form["name"].value

title = form["title"].value

email = form["email"].value

print "Name:\t", name

print "Title:\t", title

print "E-Mail:\t", email

EXAMPLE 2:

#!/usr/bin/python

print "Content-type: text/html"

print

print ""

print ""

print ""

# Different between get and post

print "

"

print "Name:
"

print ""

print "

"

print "

"

print "

"

#!/usr/bin/python

import cgi

form = cgi.FieldStorage() # instantiate only once!

name = form.getfirst('name', 'empty')

# Avoid script injection escaping the user input

name = cgi.escape(name)

print "Content-Type: text/html"

print """\

Content-Type: text/html\n

The submitted name was "%s"

""" % name

EXMPLE 3:

# Webpython.code.net

import cgitb; cgitb.enable()

# The subprocess module is new in 2.4

import os, urllib, subprocess as sub

# Retrieve the command from the query string

# and unencode the escaped %xx chars

str_command = urllib.unquote(os.environ['QUERY_STRING'])

p = sub.Popen(['/bin/bash', '-c', str_command],

    stdout=sub.PIPE, stderr=sub.STDOUT)

output = urllib.unquote(p.stdout.read())

print """\

Content-Type: text/html\n

$ %s

%s

""" % (str_command, output)

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