Thanks very much, Duane, that's just what's needed and does the job in this case. (without the bracketing mail-injected stars, as you noted.)
Jim Eshelman www.nepm.net Network Monitoring with a difference ----- Original Message ----- From: "Duane Bronson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James Eshelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "L-boston-pm" <[email protected]>; "Tom Metro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 05/09/2005 10:21 AM Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Bizare HTTP::Daemon <=> IE problem on Windows Some windows processes (GUIs) when run from cmd will return control and others (command lines) will not. It might have something to do with closing the stdin/stdout, but I'm not sure. The bottom line is that you can sometimes get things to launch in the background with "start". `*start *startupfile.html` and print "problem with startupfile.html due to: $!\n"; # Good luck getting that to work on non-windows. Perhaps there's a way to get Windows perl to obey setting SHELL to "cmd /c start" or something. James Eshelman wrote: >No, opening another browser window, or one on another machine, is not >successful either as long as the first one is still open. I ran >HTTP::Daemon in the debugger and it became immediately obvious that the >problem is opening the first IE window in the backticks: When cmd.exe runs >the first instance of IE, i.e. the first window to open, IE never "returns" >or completes the process of opening the window, so the web server code >blocks at that point and never drops into the connect loop, until that first >window is closed. By contrast, if another IE instance is already open, >opening all later ones does get a "return", so no blocking and everything >runs fine. So it's really not an HTTP::Daemon issue at all, but strictly a >Windows/cmd.exe/IE question. It's possible that any browser would do this. >I haven't tested Firefox yet. > >Why things have to work this way I'm not sure. Perhaps some Windows/IE >guru on this list can elucidate this behavior for us. > > >Jim Eshelman >www.nepm.net >Network Monitoring with a difference > > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
