Hi, I have a cgi-script that calls a service to fetch around 1000 records from the database. But the cgi script times out and I get this error message :

(70007)The timeout specified has expired: ap_content_length_filter: apr_bucket_read() failed, referer: <website-address>

So, I searched this forum and found that I can use a parent process to temporarily tell the user that the result is being fetched and a child process to carry out the actual result computation. Still, I get this error. Kindly, kindly help me out. Here's the code snippet : 

my $pid = fork;
if($pid>=0)
{
    if($pid>0)
    {
        print "</form>\n";
        print "<FORM action=\"/cgi-bin/reload.cgi\" name=reloadform id
+=reloadform target=\"_blank\">\n";
    print "<script type=text/javascript>\n";
    print "window.onload=function(){ window.setTimeout(function() {red
+irect();},15000); };\n";
        print "function redirect() { document.reloadform.submit(); }";
    print "</script>";
        print "</FORM>\n";
    }
    else
    {
        $s2ui->downLoadResults() if param('action') eq 'Download Resul
+ts';
        exit 0;
    }

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 UPDATE : Could anyone also tell me if there are ways other than forking to handle the above type of error?

In reply to Using parent and child processes in perl by perl-nun

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