The perl scripts use cgi.pm. The Python scripts use the cgi module. Everything runs OK on Linux, where fork is available. On Windows the run_cgi method uses os.popen3 to run the script and writes the post data to the script's input file.
The Python scripts are OK. The Perl scripts do not receive the POST parameters so they execute as though no parameters were supplied. I've added logic to display the environment and that appears (to my Python oriented eye) to be correct. In particular, the CONTENT_LENGTH and CONTENT_TYPE are correct. GET requests work correctly. In googling around, I found references to old POST problems under Windows. Those have clearly been fixed. The Python scripts work and the comments in the source code explain what was done (reading extra characters beyond the specified content-length that IE pushes up to the server). My guesses are that the Perl CGI module in Windows needs some other environment cue to get it to read the input file or it expects a different mechanism for receiving POST data than reading it from a file. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. (My fall back will be to change the run_cgi method for the Perl scripts to mimic a GET and put the parameters into the environment QUERY_STRING and hope that I do not exceed any limits on the string size.) -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor