#!/usr/bin/python import time import sys import random import string import cgi import cgitb; cgitb.enable() form = cgi.FieldStorage() print 'Content-Type: text/plain' print channelid = form.getvalue('channelid') if not channelid: # if we don't get a channel id, the client requests one print 1234 else: time.sleep(random.randrange(0, 10)) ret = [] for i in range(random.randrange(10, 40)): ret.append(random.choice(string.lowercase + ' ')) print ''.join(ret)