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garfonzo
February 20th, 2011, 06:38 PM
Ok, all I want to do is have a python CGI script open a web page within my site.

Here's the way it happens:

1) A user completes a form on my site, clicks "Submit"
2) The submit button calls a python script to email the contents of the form.

Now, after the CGI has emailed the form info, I want it to simply navigate to a web page in my site (namely, a "thank you for your info" type page). You know, to let the user know their info has been sent.

Grr!! I can't figure this out!!
t1497f35
February 20th, 2011, 09:51 PM
Sorry I noticed you're a bit pissed off, hopefully this will help
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=a%20cup%20of%20rage&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=2112&bih=942
garfonzo
February 20th, 2011, 10:52 PM
This about sums it up. (http://dya.mine.nu/forum/rage3.png)

Seriously though, I am going a bit nuts.....
memilanuk
February 20th, 2011, 10:54 PM
Have you tried googling 'python cgi'?

what code have you actually tried to get working?
wmcbrine
February 21st, 2011, 12:57 AM
You can either:

1. Return a 302 response instead of 200, or
2. Send a web page with a meta refresh tag, or
3. Have the script output the "Thank you" page itself.

In classic CGI, IIRC, the response is already sent by the web server, so option 1 is unavailable.
garfonzo
February 21st, 2011, 01:18 AM
You can either:

1. Return a 302 response instead of 200, or
2. Send a web page with a meta refresh tag, or
3. Have the script output the "Thank you" page itself.

In classic CGI, IIRC, the response is already sent by the web server, so option 1 is unavailable.

I got fed up and went with option 3.
wmcbrine
February 21st, 2011, 07:13 AM
Option three is a pretty normal thing for a CGI script to do, so I'm not sure why you think of this as giving up.
greenmonkeey
February 21st, 2011, 11:51 AM
can u tell me where to learn python language...
Yeti can't ski
February 21st, 2011, 12:07 PM
can u tell me where to learn python language...

I am also learning it. This was a very a good starting point:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer%27s_Tutorial_for_Python_3/Wikibook
Calliham
February 21st, 2011, 12:07 PM
Google: learn python language free
Portmanteaufu
February 24th, 2011, 07:22 PM
You can have your CGI script simply provide a Location header as its sole output.

e.g.


#!/usr/bin/python
print("Location: /some/thank_you/page.html\n")


Note that if you output anything at all before that header, it won't work.