Simple CGI Script in Python

The Python documentation is a pretty good place to start: http://docs.python.org/library/cgi.html

Hello world

print "Content-Type: text/html"     # HTML is following
print                               # blank line, end of headers
print "Hello!"

Show Headers

HTTP headers are simply environment variables. Use the os.environ dictionary to get at them.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*-

import os

print "Content-type: text/html"
print

# show all headers as an HTML definition list

print "<dl>"
for key in os.environ:
    print "<dt>" + key + "</dt>"
    print "<dd>" + os.environ[key] + "</dd>"
print "</dl>"

"Discriminating" Response based on IP Address

interesting headers:

• HTTP_USER_AGENT (string identifying the user's browser, also often includes information about the computer / operating system as well)
• REMOTE_ADDR (the IP address of the user's machine *or* gateway)
• REQUEST_METHOD (either "GET" or "POST")
• QUERY_STRING (the stuff after the '?' in the users's request URL)
• HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE (language code set by user's browser)

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*-

import os

print "Content-type: text/html"
print

addr = os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR']
last = addr.split(".")[-1]
agent = os.environ.get("HTTP_USER_AGENT")

if agent == None:
    print "Go away bot!"

if (last == "174"):
    print 'Welcome "%s"' % agent
else:
    print '<img src="http://www.kuliniewicz.org/hotlink/hotlink.png" />'