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+:mod:`CGIHTTPServer` --- CGI-capable HTTP request handler
+=========================================================
+
+.. module:: CGIHTTPServer
+   :synopsis: This module provides a request handler for HTTP servers which can run CGI
+              scripts.
+.. sectionauthor:: Moshe Zadka <moshez@zadka.site.co.il>
+
+
+The :mod:`CGIHTTPServer` module defines a request-handler class, interface
+compatible with :class:`BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler` and inherits
+behavior from :class:`SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` but can also
+run CGI scripts.
+
+.. note::
+
+   This module can run CGI scripts on Unix and Windows systems; 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 :mod:`CGIHTTPServer` module defines the following class:
+
+
+.. class:: CGIHTTPRequestHandler(request, client_address, server)
+
+   This class is used to serve either files or output of CGI scripts from  the
+   current directory and below. Note that mapping HTTP hierarchic structure to
+   local directory structure is exactly as in
+   :class:`SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler`.
+
+   The class will however, run the CGI script, instead of serving it as a file, if
+   it guesses it to be a CGI script. Only directory-based CGI are used --- the
+   other common server configuration is to treat special extensions as denoting CGI
+   scripts.
+
+   The :func:`do_GET` and :func:`do_HEAD` functions are modified to run CGI scripts
+   and serve the output, instead of serving files, if the request leads to
+   somewhere below the ``cgi_directories`` path.
+
+The :class:`CGIHTTPRequestHandler` defines the following data member:
+
+
+.. attribute:: CGIHTTPRequestHandler.cgi_directories
+
+   This defaults to ``['/cgi-bin', '/htbin']`` and describes directories to treat
+   as containing CGI scripts.
+
+The :class:`CGIHTTPRequestHandler` defines the following methods:
+
+
+.. method:: CGIHTTPRequestHandler.do_POST()
+
+   This method serves the ``'POST'`` request type, only allowed for CGI scripts.
+   Error 501, "Can only POST to CGI scripts", is output when trying to POST to a
+   non-CGI url.
+
+Note that CGI scripts will be run with UID of user nobody, for security reasons.
+Problems with the CGI script will be translated to error 403.
+
+For example usage, see the implementation of the :func:`test` function.
+
+
+.. seealso::
+
+   Module :mod:`BaseHTTPServer`
+      Base class implementation for Web server and request handler.
+