Internet search engine

Matthew Jones (matj@hchworth.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:01:57 +0100 (BST)

Hi All,

Has anyone used the python binding to cgi and Dbhash to implement an
Internet search engine?

I've written a script that uses the Dbhash library to search a small
database, this works fine. I now want to put a HTML front end on the
database for access via the WWW. I've tried using the cgi interface to
do this but it doesn't work. I can write cgi scripts that generate
HTML on the fly but the call to the Dbhash library seems to interfere
with this process. The script returns all the generated HTML up to the
following line:

db = Dbhash("test_dbhash", 'r', 0600,1024,32)

none of the generated HTML is returned after this point. If I run the
script at the shell promt it works and the generated HTML is legal.

Does anyone know what's happening?

Thanks in advance for any help

Mat.
matj@hchworth.demon.co.uk