Hi all,
I have an html page that when I press the submit button the cgi script
runs a shell script. I am having trouble because the html page hangs
until the shell script has finished, i.e. the shell script process is
not running in the background. I have tried the following;
system "$my_shell_
d the form
> page somehow (behind your firewall, etc.), and even
> then I wouldn't be comfortable with it. What if
> someone entered "rm -rf /" or "; mail
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] come from the Security chapter of O'Reilly's excellent
> book "CGI Prog
Food for thought indeed! Fortunately the number of options the user has
is small and so I can write my script like so;
system "Myscript option1" if ("$Form_input" eq "Nice_things1");
system "Myscript option2" if ("$Form_input" eq "Nice_things2");
etc ...
Also this form is being used more as a "
Hello,
OK, I have a nice a simple test case, but I just can't get it to do what
I want it to. How do I get this so that when I hit submit it comes
straight back with my "hi" message instead of waiting until the sleep
command has finished? I've tried playing around with fork and how I
execute th
Hello,
OK, we now have the following;
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $pid = fork;
if ($pid == 0){
exec 'sleep 2; echo "hi"' || die "Cannot sleep: $!" ;
} else {
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "\nhi\n\n\n\n";
}
So the child process is the only one that sleeps for 2, then prints hi,
Thanks guys,
I think this should be able to do what I want, as the browser goes
straight to the return page and prints 'HI1'.
Thanks again,
Alex
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
defined(my $pid = fork ) or die "Could not fork: $!";
if ($pid){
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "\nHI1\n\n\
messag from ESS wrote:
> hi all
> I konw you havn't much time then I will begain directly
> Probem is:
> 1- I make a program to send a mail.
> 2- I send an HTML mail normaly to yahoo and hotmail.
> 3- The hotmail compile it and display as a web bage.
> 4- The yahoo did't compile it and display th
messag from ESS wrote:
> Thanks Alex Read
> but it didnt work.and I can;t control on the user broswes.
>
> NOTE: I want it compiled Like hotmial, the problem with yahoo
>
> Thanks agian
> =
>
> >From: Alex Read <
