This function creates an HTML page telling the user that
the operation failed. The argument is a text string
giving details of the failure.
manweb.cgi
# - - - e r r o r P a g e
def errorPage ( text ):
"""Write an HTML error message page.
[ text is a string ->
sys.stdout +:= an HTML error message page containing
text
stop execution ]
"""
#-- 1 --
# [ sys.stdout +:= CGI headers for generating HTML ]
print "Content-type: text/html"
print
print "<html>"
print "<head>"
print " <title>manweb error</title>"
print "</head>"
print "<body>"
print "<h1><tt>manweb</tt> script error</h1>"
print "<p>We were unable to process your request: %s" % text
print "</p>"
print "</body>"
print "</html>"
sys.exit(1)
