Python Versions: BeOpen 2.0 & ActiveState Python 2.1
Windows Version: Windows Millenium Edition
PC: Dell Inspiron 8000 Laptop

Issue: Invoking CGIHTTPServer.py either by itself or 
subclassed leads to critical problems when serving CGI 
content (*.py)  CGIHTTPServer will serve HTML with no 
issues.  If a CGI link is clicked, Windows 
sounds "critical stop" system sound, the console shows 
that the CGI is being called ("C:\>Python.exe -u 
foo.py") and will hang Internet Explorer 5.5  
CGIHTTPServer cannot, at that point, be killed through 
Ctrl-C.  If the console Window is simply closed, 
Windows will cause Explorer to sometimes crash, 
preventing a clean shutdown of the machine.

This problem exists even if "#!C:\Python20\Python.exe" 
is included as first line of CGI, and if w9xpopen is 
included in the CGI directory.

Problem does not exist with Apache or Xitami servers 
calling Python CGI scripts.  

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Does anyone have a copy of Python 2.1 or Python 2.0 on a Windows box to 
test this?  If not shouldn't we close this as out of date?

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I have 2.1.3 and Win98SE and Win2K, but don't know how 
to go about trying to reproduce the problem.  I don't have 
IE 5.5 or WinME.  Since nobody else has picked this up in 
the last 2 years, or reported a similar problem again, I'm 
indeed closing it as out-of-date.