Python CGIHTTPServer Default Directories

Question

I\'ve got the following minimal code for a CGI-handling HTTP server, derived from several examples on the inner-tubes:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import BaseHTTP         


        

Answer 1

The solution doesn't seem to work (at least for me) if the .cgi_directories requires multiple layers of subdirectories ( ['/db/cgi-bin'] for instance). Subclassing the server and changing the is_cgi def seemed to work. Here's what I added/substituted in your script:

from CGIHTTPServer import _url_collapse_path
class MyCGIHTTPServer(CGIHTTPServer.CGIHTTPRequestHandler):  
  def is_cgi(self):
    collapsed_path = _url_collapse_path(self.path)
    for path in self.cgi_directories:
        if path in collapsed_path:
            dir_sep_index = collapsed_path.rfind(path) + len(path)
            head, tail = collapsed_path[:dir_sep_index], collapsed_path[dir_sep_index + 1:]
            self.cgi_info = head, tail
            return True
    return False

server = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer
handler = MyCGIHTTPServer