[Novalug] question about security and locally run python web server

[Joseph Brinkley]

honestly no if you are behind a firewall and you have a software firewall.

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell at qis.net> wrote:

>
> I want to test some cgi programs locally without putting them on the remote
> server at qwk.net.
>
> i found this really nifty python web server to run locally:
>
> The site describing it is at:
>
>
> http://learnpython.pbworks.com/WebApplication#YourownCGIwebserveronlocalhost
>
> and the entire server is done with this short python script:
>
> <begin script>
>
> # File: cgihttpserver-example-1.py
>
> 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()
>
> <end script>
>
>
> The Code is by effbot: http://effbot.org/librarybook/cgihttpserver.htm
>
> I set it up following the instructions and it works nicely on my Ubuntu
> setup so I can practice CGI scripts.
>
> My question is this: When I run it locally is their anyway this would be
> opening my machine to malware?
>
> This was so much easier to set up for local testing than trying to get
> apache running locally.
>
> The other thing that is strange is that the web page says it only supports
> the "get" method but I am able to use "post" with it also.
>
> This opens up a much easier way to program a GUI front end to my perl
> programs - using the browser rather than perl-Tk.
>
>
>
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