Closing STDOUT should be good enough for the server. Alternatively, if
you know how big the content you are sending is, you can send a
Content-Length header, and assuming the client doesn't ignore that (it
shouldn't), the client will say the page is done when it is.
It might make more sense to run a separate process to do your background
work because the server (the particular thread or instance of it) may
wait for your program to exit before accepting new connections.
Tom Allison wrote:
If I have a cgi script that send text/plain what does the client see if
I send all the text at once but then don't exit for seconds because I'm
doing some background processing at my end? do they sit and spin around
in circles?
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