On 7/5/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <wrowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Joshua Slive wrote: > On 7/5/06, Rajat Sharma <rsharma@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> My cgi script needs to do some dirty work. User is supposed to be >> notified >> via email when the job is done. > >> Issue is that the after submit of the page, the IE still keeps loading >> the >> page until the long\dirty job is over. >> >> How can I make line 1 come up as an instant page. > > I've never done this myself, but I believe you need to close stdin and > stderr as well as stdout. I'm near certain that would lead to apache ultimately clobbering the child process. The best way to handle this is your own daemon, which your cgi tells to 'go' and then returns immediate to apache after printing the status message. Even if apache serves this request, I believe the worker slot will block on the process to exit, or axe it.
As I've said, I've never done it. But this is a very old FAQ, and it should work the way I described: http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/cgifaq.3.html#8 Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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