Re: CGI newb... redirect page

From: Sean Berry (sean_berry_at_cox.net)
Date: 05/27/04

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    "Sean Berry" <sean_berry@cox.net> wrote in message
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    > Hi there. I am relativly new to Python CGI and need a question answered.
    >
    > I have made custom 404 error pages and have them in various web
    directories.
    >
    > I have not been able to figure out a way to have apache use a file not
    > within it's own
    > home directory, so I was going to have a .py file in cgi-bin forward the
    > user on to the
    > correct error page.
    >
    > So I have say,
    > /usr/www/client1/not-found.shtml
    > and...
    > /usr/www/client2/not-found.shtml
    >
    > I found that cgi.print_environ() gave me the SERVER_NAME, which is what I
    > want.
    > But, this is part of a long html formatted string that cgi.print_environ()
    > returns.

    Okay. I found that usung os.environ yielded the results I was looking for.

    >
    > Is there something builtin to deal with these name, value pairs as a
    > dictionary?
    > I looked throught the docs, but did not see this functionality.
    >
    > Also, when I do extract this info... how do I actually do a redirect to a
    > certain page
    >

    But, I still don't know how to forward, or redirect a page.

    Please help.

    > Example.
    > User goes to www.client1.com/page_not_on_server.html
    > The apache conf file sends the redirect to /cgi-bin/redirect.py
    > Redirect.py extracts the requesting server, client1.com, then
    > redirects them to www.client1.com/not-found.shtml.
    >
    > Thanks for your help.
    >
    >

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