cgi.FieldStorage always empty - never returns POSTed form Data
- by Dan Carlson
This problem is probably embarrassingly simple.
I'm trying to give python a spin. I thought a good way to start doing that would be to create a simple cgi script to process some form data and do some magic. My python script is executed properly by apache using mod_python, and will print out whatever I want it to print out.
My only problem is that cgi.FieldStorage() is always empty. I've tried using both POST and GET. Each trial I fill out both form fields.
<form action="pythonScript.py" method="POST" name="ARGH">
<input name="TaskName" type="text" />
<input name="TaskNumber" type="text" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
If I change the form to point to a perl script it reports the form data properly. The python page always gives me the same result: number of keys: 0
#!/usr/bin/python
import cgi
def index(req):
pageContent = """<html><head><title>A page from"""
pageContent += """Python</title></head><body>"""
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
keys = form.keys()
keys.sort()
pageContent += "<br />number of keys: "+str(len(keys))
for key in keys:
pageContent += fieldStorage[ key ].value
pageContent += """</body></html>"""
return pageContent
I'm using Python 2.5.2 and Apache/2.2.3. This is what's in my apache conf file (and my script is in /var/www/python):
<Directory /var/www/python/>
Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
allow from all
AddHandler mod_python .py
PythonHandler mod_python.publisher
</Directory>
