cgi bg

2014-08-25 Thread Erez D
hi i have a php cgi scripts that 1. generates an http response , this takes less than a second 2. do some stuff that may take some time, lets say a minute when posting to that cgi, although the html is returned in less then a second, the request is not closed until the minute has passed. i want

Re: cgi bg

2014-08-25 Thread Erez D
-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: cgi bg hi i have a php cgi scripts that 1. generates an http response , this takes less than a second 2. do some stuff that may take some time, lets say a minute when posting to that cgi, although the html is returned in less then a second, the request

Re: cgi bg

2014-08-25 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Erez, Did you include the response header Connection: close ? - yba On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Erez D wrote: Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:25:49 +0300 From: Erez D erez0...@gmail.com To: linux-il linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: cgi bg hi i have a php cgi scripts that 1. generates an http

Re: cgi bg

2014-08-25 Thread shimi
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Erez D erez0...@gmail.com wrote: hi i have a php cgi scripts that 1. generates an http response , this takes less than a second 2. do some stuff that may take some time, lets say a minute when posting to that cgi, although the html is returned in less then

Re: cgi bg

2014-08-25 Thread Eli Billauer
Hi, As far as I recall, the connection closes only when the cgi script's stdout closes, which is usually when the script terminates. If you fork() the process or just go on doing stuff, a file handle attached to stdout remains open, which is probably why the HTTP connection remains open.

Re: cgi bg

2014-08-25 Thread Erez D
thanks, not so easy to use, as i can not use stdout anymore but it works. On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:57 AM, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Erez D erez0...@gmail.com wrote: hi i have a php cgi scripts that 1. generates an http response , this takes less

Re: cgi bg

2014-08-25 Thread guy keren
you can re-open stdout and point it to a file (perhaps even to /dev/null). On 08/25/2014 11:41 AM, Erez D wrote: thanks, not so easy to use, as i can not use stdout anymore but it works. On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:57 AM, shimi linux...@shimi.net mailto:linux...@shimi.net wrote: On