On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:21:52 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> I am writing a CGI to serve files to the caller. I was wondering if >> there is any way to tell in my CGI if the client browser is still >> connected. If it is not, i want to execute some special code before >> exiting. >> >> Is there any way to do this? Any help on this is appreciated :) > > I don't think so. A CGI script runs once per request, and exits. The server > may find that client disconnected, but that may happen after the script > finished.
I am not a web developer, but I think that the only way is to set a timeout on server side. You can't be sure that the client disconnected, but you can stop CGI script if there's no action on client side for too long. -- Regards, Wojtek Walczak, http://tosh.pl/gminick/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
