Programming Python, 3rd Edition

17.1. "Things to Do When Visiting Chicago" This chapter is the fifth in our survey of Python Internet programming, and it continues Chapter 16's discussion. There, we explored the fundamentals of server-side Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scr...

17.2. The PyMailCGI Web Site In Chapter 15, we built a program called PyMailGUI that implements a complete Python+Tkinter email client GUI (if you didn't read that chapter, you may want to take a quick glance at it now). Here, we're going ...

17.3. The Root Page Let's start off by implementing a main page for this example. The file shown in Example 17-2 is primarily used to publish links to the Send and View functions' pages. It is coded as a static HTML file, because there ...

17.4. Sending Mail by SMTP PyMailCGI supports two main functions, as links on the root page: composing and sending new mail to others and viewing incoming mail. The View function leads to pages that let users reply to, forward, an...

17.5. Reading POP Email So far, we've stepped through the path the system follows to send new mail. Let's now see what happens when we try to view incoming POP mail. 17.5.1. The POP Password Page If you flip back...

17.6. Processing Fetched Mail At this point in our PyMailCGI web interaction, we are viewing an email message (Figure 17-12) that was chosen from the selection list page. On the message view page, selecting an action from the pull-down list a...

17.7. Utility Modules This section presents the source code of the utility modules imported and used by the page scripts shown earlier. As installed, all of these modules live in the same directory as the CGI scripts, to make impo...

17.8. CGI Script Trade-Offs As shown in this chapter, PyMailCGI is still something of a system in the making, but it does work as advertised: when it is installed on a remote server machine, by pointing a browser at the m...