On Apr 22, 11:09 pm, placid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 22, 4:08 pm, Adrian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This may be more a cgi thing than a Python one, but I'm trying to get > > this page: > > >http://adrian10.phpwebhosting.com/trial.html > > > consisting basically of this: > > > <FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/python3.cgi" METHOD="POST"> > > <TEXTAREA NAME="essay" COLS=60 ROWS=20 WRAP=HARD></TEXTAREA> > > <P><INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="submit" NAME="submitbutton"> > > </FORM> > > > ...to print out the contents of the textarea with this cgi script: > > > #!/usr/bin/python > > import cgi > > print "Content-type: text/html\n" > > form = cgi.FieldStorage() > > print form["essay"].value > > > ...and I get an internal server error if I have any spaces in the > > textarea, which is really going to limit its usefulness to me. Oddly, > > it seems to work for a friend in the UK who's looked at it, but it > > doesn't work for me here in Japan. > > i just tried it and its working. here it is > > http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~bevcimen/form.html > > maybe the internal server error is because mod_python isn't installed > assuming your using Apache as your web server
You do not need mod_python installed to be able to run CGI scripts, thus has nothing to do with mod_python. Graham -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
