It was a file permission issue. All files on my website were set to a permission level of ‘644.’ Once I changed the permission level to 705 (chmod 705) everything worked. Note that I changed it to 705, but 755 will also work. I also changed the folder it was in to 701 (to hide … Read more
For CGI, using print() requires that the correct codec has been set up for output. print() writes to sys.stdout and sys.stdout has been opened with a specific encoding and how that is determined is platform dependent and can differ based on how the script is run. Running your script as a CGI script means you … Read more
I’m writing in to provide an answer after nearly a year because the given answer is incomplete and because the suggestion to leave off the /$1 is wrong. Other stackoverflow threads that can be reached by an Internet search using the string “deploy flask on cgi” have also ended without satisfactory solutions. To begin, my … Read more
Answering this for late-comers because I don’t think that the posted answers get to the root of the problem, which is the lack of locale environment variables in a CGI context. I’m using Python 3.2. open() opens file objects in text (string) or binary (bytes) mode for reading and/or writing; in text mode the encoding … Read more
Invoking a CGI script is pretty simple. PHP has a few peculiarities, but you basically only need to setup a list of environment variables, then call the PHP-CGI binary: setenv GATEWAY_INTERFACE=”CGI/1.1″ setenv SCRIPT_FILENAME=/path/to/script.php setenv QUERY_STRING=”id=123&name=title&parm=333″ setenv REQUEST_METHOD=”GET” … exec /usr/bin/php-cgi Most of them are boilerplate. SCRIPT_FILENAME is how you pass the actual php filename to … Read more
in the form action form action=””, put the location of your cgi script and the value of the textbox will be passed to the cgi script. eg. <form name=”search” action=”/cgi-bin/test.py” method=”get”> Search: <input type=”text” name=”searchbox”> <input type=”submit” value=”Submit”> </form> in your test.py import cgi form = cgi.FieldStorage() searchterm = form.getvalue(‘searchbox’) thus you will get the … Read more
Try this: saveIFS=$IFS IFS=’=&’ parm=($QUERY_STRING) IFS=$saveIFS Now you have this: parm[0]=a parm[1]=123 parm[2]=b parm[3]=456 parm[4]=c parm[5]=ok In Bash 4, which has associative arrays, you can do this (using the array created above): declare -A array for ((i=0; i<${#parm[@]}; i+=2)) do array[${parm[i]}]=${parm[i+1]} done which will give you this: array[a]=123 array[b]=456 array[c]=ok Edit: To use indirection in … Read more
A part answer to your question, including scgi. What’s the difference between scgi and wsgi? Is there a speed difference between WSGI and FCGI? How Python web frameworks, WSGI and CGI fit together CGI vs FCGI Lazy and not writing it on my own. From the wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastCGI Instead of creating a new process for … Read more
Use String#encode The official way to convert between string encodings as of Ruby 1.9 is to use String#encode. To simply remove non-ASCII characters, you could do this: some_ascii = “abc” some_unicode = “áëëçüñżλφθΩ𠜎😸” more_ascii = “123ABC” invalid_byte = “\255” non_ascii_string = [some_ascii, some_unicode, more_ascii, invalid_byte].join # See String#encode documentation encoding_options = { :invalid => :replace, … Read more
You should first write to a cStringIO object then write the HTTP header then write the content of the cStringIO to stdout Thus, if an error in savefig occured, you could still return something else, even another header. Some errors won’t be recognized earlier, e.g., some problems with texts, too large image dimensions etc. You … Read more