Assuming the form data is posted from a browser, if you send the browser an appropriate HTTP header, which could even be a 204 to mean "do nothing", then close STDOUT, the browser will think everything's done while your script can continue to execute. Note that STDOUT is truly closed, however. This may not be what you want in persistent environments.
---------------FROM------------------- David R. Miller Senior Programmer Medical Council of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 521-6012 x 2265 (613) 521-9722 (fax) ----------------------------------------- Original message: Message: 2 From: "JulianL Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Execute and return immediately. Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:04:41 -0600 My original question must have baffled you. I want a perl script responding to a cgi-form to execute another perl script yet return immediately. I have tried system and Win32::Process::Create to no avail, regardless of which or how I have used it, the cgi script only returns when the "child" process has finished. Has anyone done this before? Any ideas on how to do it? Bodger _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Web mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
