Thanks Jashua, but I am on windows and cannot redirect to /dev/null Still looking ________________________________ From: jslive@xxxxxxxxx on behalf of Joshua Slive Sent: Wed 7/5/2006 12:04 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [users@httpd] CGI help on apache needed 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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