gitweb in django

views.py

import os, sys, subprocess, httplib
from cStringIO import StringIO
from django.http import HttpResponse

def gitweb(request):
    cigenv = {
            'REQUEST_METHOD': request.method,
            'QUERY_STRING': request.META['QUERY_STRING'],
    }
    os.environ.update(cigenv)

    p = subprocess.Popen(['/usr/share/gitweb/index.cgi'],
            stdin = subprocess.PIPE,
            stdout = subprocess.PIPE,
            stderr = subprocess.PIPE
    )

    stdout, stderr = p.communicate()

    res = httplib.HTTPResponse(FakeSock(), method='GET')
    res.fp = StringIO(stdout)
    res.begin()

    if not res.getheaders():
        msg = httplib.HTTPMessage(StringIO(stdout))
    else:
        meg = res.msg

    #remove headers
    while True:
        line = res.fp.readline()
        if line == '\r\n': break

    response = HttpResponse(res.read(), mimetype=msg.getheader('content-type'))
    for item in msg.items():
        response[item[0]] = item[1]
    return response

class FakeSock(object):
    def makefile(self, mode, bufsize):
        pass