Dennis, Cameron,

You are absolutely right. I was not aware that the cgi was trying to open 
the new browser on the server -I am a beginner with cgi, python and 
javascript.

This simple javascript does the job perfectly:

window.open("http://www.google.com";);

Thanks a lot,
Antonio


"Antonio Ceballos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje 
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> Hello,
>
> I am trying to open a URL on a new browser or new tab from an HTML page 
> created from a python cgi script. On Apache in my localhost, it works, 
> both with Internet Explorer and Firefox. However, when I upload the script 
> to a remote server, it does not. A 500 Internal Server Error is displayed 
> on the browser.
>
> The (simplified) piece of code is as follows:
>
> import webbrowser
> webbrowser.open_new(http://www.google.com)
>
> The server runs python 2.3. I am using python 2.5 in my localhost.
>
> Can anybody figure out why this may be happening?
>
> Cheers,
> Antonio
>
> 


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