Intrestingly, Even if CGI is told to print instantly, the apache knows that the "long job" is doing something and might need to print out. This is why it waits for the "long job" to be over before it releases the STDOUT pipe.
I thought I will fork it, close the PIPE on child which is supposed to do the long job so that apache doesn't wait for it. At this time child will continue to do the long job. Apache releases the pipe held by the parent and IE dislays the new page. Interestingly, it is not helping Raj -----Original Message----- From: Hugh Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:29 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed Is there really a need to use forking? Instead, how about: 1. CGI prints instant reply. 2. CGI execs long job (you *are* using exec and not system, right?), and exits. 3. long job sends mail (exec or system or a subroutine) when it's done. You'd need to pass $loginid to the long job of course. hugh Rajat Sharma wrote: > > Script looks something like below > > 1. print ("Location: http://XYZ:9090/Project/filepath.html\n\n";); > 2. close(STDOUT); > 3. my $pid = fork; > > 4. $pid = 0 unless defined $pid; # be the kid if fork failed > > 5. exit 0 if $pid; > > ## child... > > 6. close(STDOUT); > > ### LONG DIRTY JOB START > 7. exec "la_results.pl $input{'dirPath'} $checkboxString"; > ### LONG DIRTY JOB OVER > > 8. mail.pl $loginId ## MAIL THE NOTIFICATION > > Issue is that the after submit of the page, the IE still keeps loading > the page until the long\dirty job is over. -- Hugh Williams "There are two things to aim for in life; [EMAIL PROTECTED] first, to get what you want; and after that, Agilent Technologies to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind Santa Rosa 2US-C achieve the second." 707.577.4941 - Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
