RE: Error in reading remote server file with HTTP

Hello All,

Please guide me with the issue. I have tried all the ways to overcome the=
 problem but was not able to solve it.
Now I am thinking to give all the permissions required to read the files =
from remote server to browser but not getting=20
Exact permission required.


Thanks & Regards,
Rahul

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:mod_python-bounces@modpyth=
on.org] On Behalf Of [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 10:27 PM
To: Bond, Gregory
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [mod_python] Error in reading remote server file with HTTP

Thanks Bond,

But can you help me elaborating what kind of permission is required to
access the file using Webserver.
So that i can make necessary changes.

Thanks
Rahul
> Suspect this is not a mod_python issue so much as a permissions issue.
> When
> running from webserver, you will use different username and hence have
> different permissions than when running from command line or IDE.
>
> And given that web servers are sometimes SUID processes, os.access() is
> possibly not what you want, as it is designed to do different things in
> suid
> environment.
>
>
> On 5/08/10 10:49 PM, "Rahul Warhekar" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Ok, I will change my question.
>> I want to open remote servers text file using mod_python in my program=
,
>> to
>> display file contents in browser for reading.
>> But I am getting result as =C5=92FALSE=C2=B9 when I tried to check the
>> availability of
>> that path in my program. For checking path I have used
>> Os.access(path, os.F_OK) function.
>>
>> But for information when I used the same function with same path from
>> Python
>> IDE I am getting output as =C5=92TRUE=C2=B9.
>>
>> Please guide me with the problem. I am being stuck on this place.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rahul Warhekar
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rahul Warhekar
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2010 9:16 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [mod_python] Error in reading remote server file with HTTP
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am trying to read file from remote machine using mod_python, but I a=
m
>> getting Error while using opening the file.
>>
>> So I tried to use os.access (path, F_OK) to check for path availabilit=
y
>> from
>> Python IDE so it returns =C5=92True=C2=B9 but when I
>>
>> Tries the same os.access(path, F_OK) function from browser it is
>> returning
>> =C5=92False=C2=B9.
>>
>> I think this function might be due to some security reasons but my
>> os.access()
>> is returning true when executed from
>>
>> Python IDE.
>>
>> Any help regarding this will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>  Thanks In advance
>> Rahul Warhekar
>>
>>
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