> Basicall, what I need is a stand alone CGI. Instead of the program passing > the data off to a CGI, I want it to parse and handle the request directly.
instead of which program ? Http requests are served by a web server (ie Apache), which depending on the type of request passes the request to wherever. As such any HTTP request *must* be handled first by a web server, and cgi scripts traditionally lived in cgi-bin directory on the server so a URL would look like http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/myscript.py I think you have 3 options 1. use the cgi module in python to create scripts like the one above. They will not be fast but it gives you a lowlevel access to the request However cgi was out of date about 8 years ago - it has some serious limitations mostly on speed/capacity. 2. use a system like mod_python. This is better than cgi for lots of reasons, mostly to do with speed. Here you also have access to the request objects, but there is a bit of a learning curve. 3. Zope - higher level than even mod_python and still more of a learning curve (there is a multitude of python based cgi repalcements, Django, webware and others spring to mind. But there is no clear "winner" amoungst the community) I would recommend that you look at taking a weekend to install apache, and play with both the cgi module and mod_python. mod_python is pretty good and fairly well documented, as well as being pretty low level. I think there is a lot to do here - perhaps if you tell us exactly what you need we can point you at a solution. Some web hosters provide mod_python or zope hosting and that might be a way to get up and running faster. On 9/27/05, Jerl Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been looking through some of the HTTP projects and haven't quite > found what I'm looking for. > Basicall, what I need is a stand alone CGI. Instead of the program passing > the data off to a CGI, I want it to parse and handle the request directly. > > The part I'm having trouble with is actually getting the request and parsing > it. > > Let's say I have a URI that looks like: > ?var1=val1&var2=val2&...varn=valn > > I'd like to find a way to get these into some datastructure so I can use > them to generate my output. > > It seems like a simple thing, but as I'm new to python, I don't know where > to start. > > Thank you for any help you can give. > > > Jerl > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > -- -------------------------- Paul Brian m. 07875 074 534 t. 0208 352 1741 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor