#!/usr/bin/python
# v0.01
# cgiproxy.py
# Copyright Michael Foord
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import sys
import cgi
import urllib2
sys.stderr = sys.stdout
HOMEPAGE = 'www.google.co.uk'
######################################################
def getform(valuelist, theform, notpresent=''):
"""This function, given a CGI form, extracts the data from it, based on
valuelist passed in. Any non-present values are set to '' - although this can be changed.
(e.g. to return None so you can test for missing keywords - where '' is a valid answer but to have the field missing isn't.)"""
data = {}
for field in valuelist:
if not theform.has_key(field):
data[field] = notpresent
else:
if type(theform[field]) != type([]):
data[field] = theform[field].value
else:
values = map(lambda x: x.value, theform[field]) # allows for list type values
data[field] = values
return data
def pagefetch(thepage):
req = urllib2.Request(thepage)
u = urllib2.urlopen(req)
data = u.read()
return data
###################################################
if __name__ == '__main__':
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
data = getform(['url'],form)
if not data['url']: data['url'] = HOMEPAGE
print "Content-type: text/html" # this is the header to the server
print # so is this blank line
test = pagefetch('http://' + data['url'])
print test
