On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 00:44 -0400, yitzle wrote: > I need some guidance... > I'm thinking of writing a CGI script that someone can pass some data > and set it running. The script may take a few seconds to run. > Is it safe/correct/OK to have a CGI script fork, with one thread > respondng with a HTTP response while the other thread does its work? I > want the HTTP response to finish sending right away, and not have to > wait for the script to finish.
I have done this and it works OK. I used a second CGI that queried the log file stored on the server with an auto-update flag. Currently I am reading up on AJAX that seems to be the correct solution to the problem and makes for some slick applications. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
