XSP and background processing

[Matthew Smith]

Hello all

Anyone ever done a background process in XSP? I want to display a progress update or something while my user is waiting for their form data to be processed. - e.g. I have a button that generates a gzipped HTML rendering of my website for uploading to a non AxKit server. How would I know that my background process has finished and what the results were?

One approach is to fork-exec and put the PID of the forked process into the session object. The XSP page could then have a refresh meta tag set to a few seconds and check the PID each time it loads until the process is finished. It could also check a log file or tmp filename based on the PID of the forked process.

In another approach, the forked process could somehow get hold of the session object and put the results there as well as indicating that it has not finished yet - maybe use a watchdog counter to detect if it crashed.

Perhaps there are more elegant ways?

any comments / examples / success stories on similar processes?

matt


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