Howdy Monks,

Let me start off by saying that this is my first CGI script, but I have written quite a few perl scripts in the past. I wrote a web interface (with CGI.pm) which produces a report from our firewall logs for certain criteria which the user defines (ie. ip address, port number, date, etc). It works fine when it is a small report that only takes 5 minutes or less, but if it has to parse a large amount of traffic over many log files, the script timesout before it is complete. I have a few questions:
  1. Does the webserver (apache in this case) control the timeout of a CGI program or can this be configured in the cgi program?
  2. Is there a way to have the script stay running even if I close the browser? Right now if I close the browser, it kills the script.
  3. Last. Might it be a better idea to use mod_perl instead? I've been reading up on mod_perl and it seems to be good if you are a little more advanced in Perl (which I don't feel I am yet) and it has more options then CGI.pm

TIA
-Dru

In reply to Is CGI.pm my best choice? by dru145

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