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authorJeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>2004-12-22 14:19:09 (GMT)
committerJeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>2004-12-22 14:19:09 (GMT)
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SF patch #1055159 via Titus Brown: Document redirect limitation.
Bug fix candidate.
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@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ run CGI scripts.
on Mac OS it will only be able to run Python scripts within the same
process as itself.}
+\note{CGI scripts run by the \class{CGIHTTPRequestHandler} class cannot execute
+redirects (HTTP code 302), because code 200 (script output follows)
+is sent prior to execution of the CGI script. This pre-empts the status
+code.}
+
The \module{CGIHTTPServer} module defines the following class:
\begin{classdesc}{CGIHTTPRequestHandler}{request, client_address, server}