I am piggybacking on Hakan's original posting because I am addressing the same group of people (those with good knowledge in the standard web programming modules), on a related topic. However, my question is independent of Hakan's.
I have trouble getting a simple CGI script to work because it gets an empty cgi.FieldStorage form. I have looked into and tried to debug the internals of the standard modules that are used but I cannot figure it out: how is a multipart POST request parsed by CGIHTTPServer? BTW, I am using pyton 2.4. I found the parsing of the header in the rfc822 module used by BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler (through the mimetools module), but that stops after the header (at the first empty line). Where is the parsing done for the POST data following the header? I will appreciate any pointers that will help me debug this problem. As a side note, I found other old reports of problems with cgi handling POST requests, reports that don't seem to have had a resolution. There is even a bug reported just a few days ago (1112856) that is exactly about multipart post requests. If I understand the bug report correctly though, it is only on the latest version in CVS and it states that what is in the 2.4 release works. All this tells me that it could be a "fragile" part in the standard library. So it could be even a bug in the standard library, but for now I am assuming that I'm doing something wrong. Thanks, Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
