How do I fork a process and return results to the user?

2015-08-30 Thread G M
Hi,
Can anyone help me with this?
I have two scripts, the first one calls the exec command which then invokes the 
second script.  The second script then creates a fork process.  The child 
process in the fork does a webservice query which may take a few minutes to 
return results.
What I want to do is forward the user to a Searching for results page which 
polls periodically for results.  Eventually it will display the search results.
How can I do this?  Once the background fork process is running I have no idea 
how to get forward the user to a new page and display the results on that page.
Any help with this would be great as I'm pretty much stumped.

Thank you,
G :)
  

Re: How do I fork a process and return results to the user?

2015-08-30 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi G,

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On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 21:47:47 +
G M iamnotregiste...@hotmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 Can anyone help me with this?
 I have two scripts, the first one calls the exec command which then invokes
 the second script.  The second script then creates a fork process.  The child
 process in the fork does a webservice query which may take a few minutes to
 return results. What I want to do is forward the user to a Searching for
 results page which polls periodically for results.  Eventually it will
 display the search results. How can I do this?  Once the background fork
 process is running I have no idea how to get forward the user to a new page
 and display the results on that page. Any help with this would be great as
 I'm pretty much stumped.
 

You may wish to look at:

1. AJAX / Redirects - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29 .

2. Async / event-driven programming - http://perl-begin.org/uses/multitasking/ .

3. Sockets / networking (or something filesystem based with locks).

4. Your web-service configuration for mapping a service URL.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

Note: perl-begin.org is a domain I maintain.

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