#! /usr/local/bin/python import cgi import urllib import string # As per CGI, our stdout is going to the HTTP client. We need to spit # out the standard MIME header stuff, and then the hardcoded part of # the HTML to return. print 'Content-type: text/html' print print '
'
# A dictionary to map short keys to longer names. The keys are passed
# to this script via the QUERY_STRING environment variable as defined
# by CGI. The URL sent by the applet looks something like:
#
# http://...../cgi-bin/echovalid.py?org=NameOfOrg+age=33+name=JohnDoe
#
# urllib module takes care of quoting these fields on the client side,
# and unquoting the fields on our side.
longnames = {
'org': 'Organization',
'age': 'Age',
'name': 'Name'
}
# grab stuff out of QUERY_STRING and do the top level split
query_string = cgi.environ['QUERY_STRING']
querylist = string.splitfields(query_string, '+')
querylist.reverse()
# cycle through the individual key/value pairs
for f in querylist:
key, value = tuple(string.splitfields(f, '='))
if value: value = urllib.unquote(value)
print '%s: %s' % (longnames[key], value)
# print standard HTML trailer
print ''
print '