How to make a Webserver supporting cgi(include "post") using python

Simple CGI webserver script

import CGIHTTPServer

import BaseHTTPServer

class Handler(CGIHTTPServer.CGIHTTPRequestHandler):

cgi_directories = ["/cgi"]

PORT = 8000

httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(("", PORT), Handler)

print "serving at port", PORT

httpd.serve_forever()

HTML PAGE for using upload function

action="cgi-bin/save_file.py" method="post">

File:

save_file.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import cgi, os

import cgitb; cgitb.enable()

form = cgi.FieldStorage()

# Get filename here.

fileitem = form['filename']

# Test if the file was uploaded

if fileitem.filename:

# strip leading path from file name to avoid

# directory traversal attacks

fn = os.path.basename(fileitem.filename)

open('tmp/' + fn, 'wb').write(fileitem.file.read())

message = 'The file "' + fn + '" was uploaded successfully'

else:

message = 'No file was uploaded'

print """\

Content-Type: text/html\n

%s

""" % (message,)