twisted.web.twcgi.CGIScript : API documentation

CGIScript is a resource which runs child processes according to the CGI specification.

The implementation is complex due to the fact that it requires asynchronous IPC with an external process with an unpleasant protocol.

Method	__init__	Initialize, with the name of a CGI script file.
Method	render	Do various things to conform to the CGI specification.
Method	runProcess	Run the cgi script.

Inherited from Resource:

Method	listStaticNames	Undocumented
Method	listStaticEntities	Undocumented
Method	listNames	Undocumented
Method	listEntities	Undocumented
Method	listDynamicNames	Undocumented
Method	listDynamicEntities	Undocumented
Method	getStaticEntity	Undocumented
Method	getDynamicEntity	Undocumented
Method	delEntity	Undocumented
Method	reallyPutEntity	Undocumented
Method	getChild	Retrieve a 'child' resource from me.
Method	getChildWithDefault	Retrieve a static or dynamically generated child resource from me.
Method	getChildForRequest	Undocumented
Method	putChild	Register a static child.
Method	render_HEAD	Default handling of HEAD method.

def __init__(self, filename, registry=None, reactor=None): (source)

Initialize, with the name of a CGI script file.

def render(self, request): (source)

Do various things to conform to the CGI specification.

I will set up the usual slew of environment variables, then spin off a process.

Parameters request An HTTP request. (type: twisted.web.http.Request)

def runProcess(self, env, request, qargs=[]): (source)

Run the cgi script.

Parameters	env	The environment variables to pass to the processs that will get spawned. See `twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorProcess.spawnProcess` for more information about environments and process creation. (type: A `dict` of `str`, or `None`)
	request	An HTTP request. (type: `twisted.web.http.Request`)
	qargs	The command line arguments to pass to the process that will get spawned. (type: A `list` of `str`)

twisted.web.twcgi.CGIScript(resource.Resource) class documentation