Questions tagged [cgi]
1) The Common Gateway Interface outlines the protocol for web server software to outsource web page creation to a separate application or executable file. 2) CGI stands for Computer Generated Imagery.
In my current Perl script, I am working on a functionality where I retrieve data from an xls file and display it as input text on a webpage. The objective is that when a user selects the edit option from a menu, the entire table fetched from the xls file w ...
Last week, I was handed a Python-based monitoring and notification tool to work on. My task is to develop a proof of concept dashboard using the data collected by this tool over the years. The catch is that I'm fairly new to Python and have never dabbled i ...
Currently, I'm working on creating a basic PHP script to fetch four images from a server. The catch is that each time I retrieve a new image, I have to access a webpage first - like this: http://example.com/Set.cgi?Image=1 I don't have the abili ...
My goal is to pass parameters into my cgi script in order to display a specific post when a URL like www.helloworld.com/cgi-bin/world.py?post=101 is entered. I've attempted the following: link = '<a href="world.py?post=%s">test</a>& ...
Attempting to generate a ticket with the dimensions of 203mm x 82mm using HTML and CSS through Python (including cgi, jinja2, weasyprint). The template will be converted into a PDF for users to download via a button on the website. The HTML Body: <body ...
I am looking to set up a basic Python server on a Windows system to test CGI scripts that will ultimately run on a Unix environment. However, when I access the site, it displays a blank page with no source code visible. I am struggling to identify the issu ...
Is there a way to capture the value of a JavaScript variable and store it in a Python variable? I have a Python-CGI script that generates a selection box where the user can choose an option from a list. I want to then take this selected value and save it ...
Currently, I am in the process of building a small web server using C++. My main focus right now is on adding support for POST requests specifically for PHP pages. I have encountered some challenges when it comes to passing the POST request body to the PH ...
Currently, I am in the process of creating a UI version of the find command found in Linux. In this implementation, I receive the location and filename parameters for the find command through a CGI form that has been built using Python. When the user submi ...