On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:12 PM, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote:
> sstein...@gmail.com wrote: > >> >> On Nov 9, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Victor Subervi wrote: >> >> Yes, obviously. But if CGI is enabled, it should work anyway, should it >>> not? >>> >> >> Depends on what "CGI is enabled" means. >> >> Usually, web servers are not set to just handle cgi scripts from anywhere, >> but only from specific file system locations. Otherwise, an an anonymous >> upload could be executed as CGI and wreak havoc. >> > > If it won't work as a CGI program, which is relatively straightforward, > it probably won't work at all. > > First, write some trivial CGI program in Python and make sure the > environment works - Python loads, the Python program loads, and you > can get a response back. > > Bear in mind that most hosting services don't make much of an attempt > to support Python. Expect important libraries to be missing or obsolete. > The problem was not CGI. It turned out to be line-endings being mangled by Windoze and __invisible __ in my unix editor. Lovely. Thanks anyway, V
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