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> {copy from posting at comp.lang.python)
>
> The problem I described in this thread is with Apache, not with
> Python! And the unix Apache at my work has no problems, its only the
> Windows Apache versions. So the Apache peeps will probably say it's a
> *Windows* problem 0-)
>
> I found out with the following: I can now avoid the first HTML page
> with the .zip upload, instead I upload the .zip to my Python CGI
> program with this little program:
>
>
> import urllib
> import webbrowser
>
> webserviceURI = r'http://localhost/cgi-bin/mycgiprogram.py'
> startpageName = 'start.xml'
>
>
> # instead of a HTML page with INPUT type=file just read the file
> fp = open(fname, 'rb')
> data = fp.read()
> fp.close()
>
> # all CGI parameters in a dict, and encoded
> params = urllib.urlencode({ 'yourfile': data })
>
> # call the CGI program and read what it returns
> f = urllib.urlopen(webserviceURI, params)
> webpage = f.read()
>
> # save it locally in a file
> wpfp = open(startpageName, 'w')
> wpfp.write(webpage)
> wpfp.close()
>
> # show it in your browser
> webbrowser.open(startpageName)

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