2010/12/27 Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobg...@gmail.com>

> I'm trying to write a cgi wrapper for a long running command. The command
> takes about 10minutes to execute and when running it from the command line
> it continously outputs text to stdout. A simplistic cgi-bin wrapper that
> tries to execute the script and then writes that it is done fails with the
> following message:
>
>  Timeout waiting for output from CGI script ...
>
> What I wonder if there is any easy way to have continously update the web
> page with stdout of the script.
>
> One way, I guess would be to run the script in a separate thread and just
> do HTML reload on a static page which I would regenaret with the stdout
> generated so far.
>
> Is there any other simple solution?
>
>
You could increase the timeout to be > running time of the script ...

-- Shimi
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