I found the script below and tried, but Using Apache for Win32 and IE 5.5 as a client the client still waits for the child process to finish until it prints the desired output and brake the connection to the server.
Any Ideas? Thanks Sascha ===============8<=============== #!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe my $path = "C:\\Programme\\Apache Group\\Apache\\htdocs\\test\\"; my $url = "http://myhost/test/";; if ( ! defined ($pid = fork())) { die "Content-type: text/html\n\nUnable to fork: $!\n"; } elsif ( ! $pid ) { # this is the branch for the child process close (STDIN); close (STDOUT); close (STDERR); sleep ( 20 ); $filename = $path . "A" . $$ . ".html"; open ( OFD , "> " . $filename ) or die "Unable to open: $!"; # open the file to write the results to print OFD "<HTML><BODY>"; print OFD "The results of your query are 4 and 12."; print OFD "</BODY><HTML>"; close ( OFD ); exit; # terminate the child process } else { # this ist the branch for the parent print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "<html><body>"; print "Your request has been received<br>"; print "and is beeing processed.<br>"; print "You can access the results at "; print "<a href=\"" . $url . "A" . $pid . ".html\">A" . $pid . ".html</a> "; print "once completed."; print "</body></html>"; exit; # terminate the parent process } ===============8<=============== > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: William R. Mussatto [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet am: Freitag, 30. Mai 2003 17:57 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: How to run a long time cgi-program > > > Hello List, > > > > I am writing a perl-cgi-script who lasts a long time before it finishes > > its work. But the Webserver kills the perl-script after some time. I > > don't want to put up the time in the webservers configuration. Is there > > another way to keep the program running and reporting back to the > > webbrowser? > > > > Thank you in advance > > Sascha > First, disclaimer: I've done this on a Linux box but never on a win32 box. > > The trick is to create a child process after having closed standard out > and then terminate the parent. The problem then becomes for the > webbrowser to periodically check on the status of the child. This could > be done by using a meta refresh tag which would call a second program to > display the progress. The second program would continue refreshing itself > until the child has completed its task. > > William R. Mussatto, Senior Systems Engineer > Ph. 909-920-9154 ext. 27 > FAX. 909-608-7061 > > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
