python cgi将不会加载

Question

I wrote a cgi script that will open a firefox window using os.system("firefox &") .

So the idea is that it'll make a firefox window for me, and then print a confirmation page for the remote user.

The problem is that it only prints the confirmation page after I close the firefox window. This is especially puzzling because if I run the script in terminal as opposed to letting apache run it, it prints the confirmation html right away like it is supposed to.

Can anyone offer any insight as to why I am having trouble loading the confirmation page immediately?

Answer 1

don't use os.system . Use subprocess module .

os.system documentation says:

The subprocess module provides more powerful facilities for spawning new processes and retrieving their results; using that module is preferable to using this function.

Try this:

subprocess.Popen(['firefox'])