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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# This is a crude python script used to cut out the contents of
+# a wiki page for use in an ordinary page.
+#
+# Original version for WikiMoinMoin by <JAkov AT vmlinux DOT org>
+# Refined and added caching including conversion to TWiki, but
+# still a big hack, by <Joachim AT vmlinux DOT org>
+#
+# This script can be used freely under the traditional BSD license,
+# without the advertising clause.
+#
+
+
+import fileinput
+import string
+import os
+import os.path
+from os.path import getmtime, exists
+import sys
+import cgi
+from types import ListType
+
+
+# Set an appropriate CGI header.
+print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n"
+
+##
+# Creates a HTML page, filename, from the given URL.
+# The HTML is extracted with lynx and parsed for the occurrence of
+# the <!-- MESSAGESEPARATOR --> comment tag. All HTML between the
+# first and last tag is written to filename.
+#
+def create_html (filename, url):
+        f = open (filename, 'w')
+        raw_data = os.popen ('/usr/bin/lynx -source ' + url).read ()
+	cooked_data = string.replace (raw_data, "PageTop", "PageBottom")
+	raw_data = string.split (cooked_data, "<a name=\"PageBottom\"></a>")
+        f.write (raw_data[1])
+        f.close ()
+	return
+
+form = cgi.FieldStorage ()
+web = form.getvalue ("web", "")
+page = form.getvalue ("topic", "")
+#page = sys.argv[1]
+
+wiki_file = '/home/virtual/gnufans.org/hurd/data/' + web + '/' + page + '.txt'
+wiki_url  = 'http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/' + web +'/' + page + '?skin=plain'
+html_file = '/home/virtual/gnufans.org/hurd/spool/' + web + "-" + page
+
+#print "<h2Debugging info:</h2>"
+#print 'wiki_file="' + wiki_file + '"'
+#print 'wiki_url="'  + wiki_url  + '"'
+#print 'html_file='  + html_file + '"'
+
+
+if not exists (wiki_file):
+	print "The page " + wiki_url + "does not exist!"
+	exit
+	
+if not exists (html_file):
+#	print "Creating html file."
+	create_html (html_file, wiki_url)
+else:
+#	print "Reading file modification times."
+	wiki_file_time = getmtime (wiki_file)
+	html_file_time = getmtime (html_file)
+	
+#	print wiki_file_time
+#	print html_file_time
+
+	if wiki_file_time > html_file_time:
+#		print "Wiki file newer than html file."
+		create_html (html_file, wiki_url)
+
+# Print contents of spool file to stdout
+document = open (html_file, 'r')
+content  = document.read ()
+
+print content
+