Actually, that behavior depends on the Webserver and OS. As I recall you can close STDOUT and STDERR under Apache on a Unix'ish box and Apache will dump the other end. Tho a quick test reveals that it also kills the cgi too so it is of little use to the original poster =)

Does anyone remember if there is a way to make Apache leave the child alive after closing the connection? I have spent too much time in mod_perl so I may have that on the brain.

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Yeah, it's called "fork". I've not found any other way.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

Gah =)
What I was talking about was the cleanup handler stuff in mod_perl where you could "hang-up" the socket connection and then continue to process after the hang-up but before returning the child httpd to the pool.

Also, this reply is so late from the last post because I never noticed the chatterbox telling me there was a reply. =P Maybe someone should take exp away from me.

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