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<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Adobe PageMill 3.0 Mac">
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<TITLE>Creating CGI scripts with MacPython</TITLE>
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<H3>Creating CGI scripts with MacPython</H3>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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Note: this document is work-in-progress, and not tested.
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<P>MacPython allows you to use Python as a CGI scripting language
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for your webserver. Moreover, there are some helper applications
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that allow you to write your CGI scripts in the same way as for
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Unix and Windows, i.e. obtaining their arguments from <TT>os.environ</TT>
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and sending their results to <TT>stdout</TT>. MacPython also has
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all the facilities to program CGI scripts in the Macintosh way,
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through AppleEvents, but that falls outside the scope of this
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document (reading the source code for the helper scripts will
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give you an idea about how to do this).</P>
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<P>For the purpose of this document we will assume you are using
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Apple's Personal Webserver 1.5, which comes standard with your
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machine as of MacOS 9.</P>
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<P>The first step is to start the webserver, you will find it
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in your control panels. Give it a folder to serve documents from,
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and check that it is working by pointing your browser at it.</P>
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<P>The next step is to tell the webserver that documents with
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a ".<TT>py</TT>" extension should be served through
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the <TT>PythonCGISlave</TT> helper application. Open the webserver,
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choose Preferences, tab Action, Add, Start on Extension, extension
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".py", select application <TT>PythonCGISlave</TT> (which
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lives in <TT>Python:Mac:Tools:CGI</TT>).</P>
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<P>The last step is to try it. Put the following script in <TT>Macintosh
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HD:Webpages:hello.py </TT>(assuming your webserver has the default
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settings for its document folder):</P>
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<P><CODE>print "Content-type: text/plain"<BR>
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print<BR>
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print "Hello world!"<BR>
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import time<BR>
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print "Local time is", time.ctime(time.time())</CODE></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P>Point your webbrowser at <A HREF="http://localhost/hello.py">http://localhost/hello.py</A><CODE>
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</CODE>and check whether it works.
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