Hello,
I have web page that downloads and extracts images based on file
selection. The thank you page will not be displayed until the download
is complete... (Understandable). One of the download files is quite big
and the web server is timing out. I would like to thank you page to be
displayed instantly while the download continues to run in the
background; kind of like the '&' does at the end of a bash command. Is
this possible?
I thought for sure if I used a print "Location: $search_results\n\n";
and then used the system command to launch the download script, it
would've worked... I was mistaken! :-)
How can I get the $search_results page to come up and still run the
download program in the background?
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw(:standard);
my $query = param("vendor");
my $search_results = "http://www.example.com/res_jmt_thx.htm";;
my $no_search_results = "http://www.example.com/res_nomsds.htm";;
my $zip_file = "BigZipFile.zip";
if ($query eq $zip_file) {
print "Location: $search_results\n\n";
};
system "/usr/bin/perl /var/www/cgi-bin/jmt_launch3.pl";
# print "Location: $no_search_results\n\n";
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Thanks for any suggestions!
Brian
