The server can handle both POST and GET request. For CGI-scripts, only python scripts are handled. Within these:
- the output can be a style sheet, html sheet, or whatever, just specify the content-type at the beginning.
- to get the URL-query, or the form data, use the cgi module.
For more specific instructions run
python Server.py -h
In Html you can add the tag
<py-script src="path/to/script.py"> </py-script>and inside it you can write all the python code you want; the print() method will be equivalent to echo in PhP.
You can add a .htaccess file in your root directory, then configure routing rules. The syntax is:
Document Error [ERROR TYPE]/relative/path/to/custom-error-file.html(to redirect errors)URL/path-to/another-url
In HTML:
<a href="script.py?Title="xxx"> link </a> -> a link to a python script with a query string
<form action="script.py" method="POST"> -> a form with method POST
<input type="text" name="Input">
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>In the Python script:
import cgi
data = cgi.FieldStorage()
title = data.getvalue('Title')
input = data.getvalue('Input')
print("Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n") -> the content type
print("""
<html>
<head>
<title> CGI Example </title>
</head>
<body>
%s <br> %s
</body>
</html>
""" % (input, title))