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On 8/17/12 2:27 PM, Gilles wrote:
> Hello
>
> 	I'm learning how to call Python scripts through the different
> solutions available.
>
> For some reason, this CGI script that I found on Google displays the
> contents of the variable but the HTML surrounding it is displayed
> as-is by the browser instead of being rendered:
>
> --------------
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
>
> # enable debugging
> import cgitb
> cgitb.enable()
>
> import cgi
> form = cgi.FieldStorage()
>
> # get a value from the form
> value = form.getvalue("dummy")
>
> print "Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8"
> print
>
> # print a document
> print "<P>You typed: <TT>%s</TT></P>" % (
>      cgi.escape(value),
>      )
> --------------
>
> Here's the output:
> --------------
> <P>You typed: <TT>test</TT></P>
> --------------
>
> Could this be due to the script itself, or some server configuration?

By using "Content-Type: text/plain", you told the browser to treat it like plain 
text instead of HTML. Use text/html instead.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco