Thanks Perrin, i'll have a detailed read of that today. >From initial look though, it looked like it was a generic solution... not ideal, but one that might work...
I was hoping there might have been an integrated way in mod_perl to do such a thing as i have seen the apache upload meter before... and that does a "send a status to the browser while still uploading a file"... so its not too dissimilar to what i wanted to do... I'm sure the document you have pointed me to will come in very handy though... thankyou for that :-) simran. On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 03:32, Perrin Harkins wrote: > On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 04:08, simran wrote: > > * Fork a process from within my code, but then keep printing an updated > > status to the browser until the child process has finished its work, at > > which point i want to redirect the browser to a "thankyou page". > [...] > > If anyone knows another (/a better) way to do this.. i would be most > > interested > > I usually point people to Randal's example: > http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col20.html > > - Perrin -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html