Login form

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<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Login Page</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<CENTER>
<FORM method="POST" action="http://yourserver/cgi-bin/login.py">
<paragraph> Enter your login name: <input type="text" name="login">
<paragraph> Enter your password: <input type=password name="password">
<paragraph> <input type="submit" value="Connect">
</FORM>
</CENTER>
<HR>

</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>


File: login.py

#!/usr/local/bin/python
import cgi

def header(title):
    print "Content-type: text/htmln"
    print "<HTML>n<HEAD>n<TITLE>%s</TITLE>n</HEAD>n<BODY>n" % (title)

def footer():
    print "</BODY></HTML>"

form = cgi.FieldStorage()
password = "python"

if not form:
    header("Login Response")
elif form.has_key("login") and form["login"].value != "" and form.has_key("password") and form["password"].value == password:
    header("Connected ...")
    print "<center><hr><H3>Welcome back," , form["login"].value, ".</H3><hr></center>"
    print r"""<form><input type="hidden" name="session" value="%s"></form>""" % (form["login"].value)
    print "<H3><a href=browse.html>Click here to start browsing</a></H3>"

else:
    header("No success!")
    print "<H3>Please go back and enter a valid login.</H3>"

footer()