On 2014-02-20 14:53, Hobie Audet wrote:
I'm running the Abyss Web Server X1 (v 2.9.0.1) on a Windows XP Home
(SP3) system and am using Python 3.3 for a scripting language.  I'm
having a problem getting the environment variable "REMOTE_USER".  Here's
the situation:

1.  I have created a user under Abyss.  The userid is "userxyz"..
2.  I have created a directory under htdocs called "Test" and using the
Abyss console I have password protected it.
3.  In the "Test" directory, there is no "index.html" file but there is
an "index.py" file, so that should get executed when I access the "Test"
directory.
4.  If I start up my web browser and point it to "localhost/Test", I get
challenged for user authentication, as I should.
5.  I enter the userid ("userxyz") and its password and click the "Log
in" button.  Authentication succeeds. So far, so good.
6.  The "index.py" script is launched.  It's only function (so far) is
to fetch the "REMOTE_USER" environment variable and echo it back to me.
7.  What it echoes back is "userxyzuserxyz".  In other words, the
REMOTE_USER value is repeated.

In case you're interested, here is the entire "index.py" script:

    import os
    userid =os.environ["REMOTE_USER"]
    print("Content-type: text/html")
    print()
    print("<HTML><BODY>" + userid + "</BODY></HTML")

That's about as simple as anything could be.  The fact that the script
is displaying anything at all indicates to me that my Python cgi support
is installed correctly and that the script is being executed correctly.
By why the "REMOTE_USER" value is doubled is beyond my understanding.
Is this a bug in the os package that comes with Python 3.3?   Anybody
got a fix for it?

By the way, if I try to fetch "AUTH_USER", I get the same problem.

Thanks in advance.

How many other environment variables are doubled? All of them?

Does the problem exist when the Python script is run directly, outside
Abyss, or in IDLE, for example?
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