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