Call it asynchronously with ajax or jquery get/post - while waiting for response you can print whatever you what.
David -- בברכה, דוד רונקין נא בקרו בבלוג שלי: http://dronkin.blogspot.com 2011/12/13 Hetz Ben Hamo <het...@gmail.com> > Hi, > > I've written a simple bash script to upload a file from a remote server as > a CGI script (yes, I know, I should use another language, but it's just a > proof-of-concept). > > It goes like this: A simple HTML page gives the user a text line to enter > a URL and "upload" button, which submits the data using POST to a bash > script (I use the proccgi for transferring the values). > > The scripts fetches the URL and launches wget to grab the file, rename it > and move it to a specific directory. > > So far, so good. The script works well. > > But I have one issue with it: those files are pretty big (1-3 GB) and wget > doesn't show anything while it uploads - in the web browser. I tried using > some redirect tricks, but it still doesn't show anything on the screen. I > can redirect the output to a text file and show it after the upload, but it > defeats the purpose of showing some activity. > > So my question: how can I make WGET (or CURL) show anything on my browser > while it downloads the file (uploading it to the server)? > > Thanks, > Hetz > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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