I've got a python cgi-bin application which produces an apache web page. I want to pass arguments to it on the URL line, but the parameters are not getting passed along to python properly.
I've been using sys.argv to pick up command line arguments, and it works fine when I call the python program from the command line. Unfortunately, when I pass data to the program from the URL, many of the parameters are being clobbered and **NOT** passed to python. For example: "http://www.nobody.com/cgi-bin/program.py?sort=ascending"; only passes the parameter "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/program.py". However, "http://www.nobody.com/cgi-bin/program.py?sort%20ascending"; passes a 2-place tuple of ("/usr/lib/cgi-bin/program.py", "sort ascending"). Somehow, adding the "=" in the argument list prevents **ANY** parameters from being passed to python. I could re-write the python program to work around this, but I sure would like to understand it first. Can anybody explain this weird behavior? (Please reply to the news group... my eMail address is a phony to prevent spam.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
