--- Bill Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was fun hacking CGI.pm for the first time, but my changes did not > make a difference. So then, I guess you're right, the script must > wait > for the server to get the entire file before doing anything with it? > I did not understand that before... > > That's kind of sucky, I mean that you can't interrupt the request > with > the script being called.
For a CGI request, you are right. You cannot interrupt the request that a user agent sends to the server. This is because the server and the CGI are completely separate parts which merely speak to one another through a well-defined interface. The server gets all of the information from the user agent and *then* makes a request to the CGI script (otherwise this email list would be flooded with folks trying to figure out why they only read part of their upload). In order to get around this, you'll want to look into mod_perl or some other technology which allows Perl to have access to the full server request cycle. Cheers, Ovid -- If this message is a response to a question on a mailing list, please send follow up questions to the list. Web Programming with Perl -- http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
