>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mike> All:
Mike> I have a CGI script which forks off a new process to perform lengthy
Mike> operations, and then uses the parent to display a short message in
Mike> the browser indicating that the process has begun.
Mike> However, I'm finding that the browser tries to continue loading until
Mike> the child has completed. How can I stop this (or can I?) I want the
Mike> parent to print the message and exit, but the browser waits for the
Mike> child anyway... UGH...
Mike> use strict;
Mike> use CGI qw(:all);
Mike> $|++;
Mike> my $pid = fork;
Mike> if ($pid == 0) { # CHILD
close STDOUT;
Mike> sleep 30;
Mike> # Do stuff that takes a long time.
Mike> exit;
Mike> }
Mike> print header;
Mike> print start_html;
Mike> print "<h1>Running command. Thanks.</h1>\n";
Mike> exit;
Mike> I'm guessing I need to send some special kind of headers to the server
Mike> or something, but I really haven't a clue. Any ideas?
Mike> Thanks,
Mike> -Mike
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