I am talking about heavy work, something that will take about 5-10 minutes, and so the user can cancel the job. What I want is this: does apache send any signal to my cgi script in order to kill it ? -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Poirier Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 8:28 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: CGI Child Process Question "Lihet Ruben" <ruben.lihet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The most > important thing is I want to know if the person has downloaded the file > completely or canceled the download. So I thought that is the user cancels > the script, the program dies, I cannot log what happened. Problem: your script might have already sent its entire response and exited before the user canceled. There's really no way to be sure whether the client received the complete file. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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