Thanks John

I'm in a Win32 environment with IIS.

Here's what I'm trying to do:

1. I'm uploading a large file and I need a way of letting the user know that something is happening.

2. I'm using the javascript onSubmit event handler within the form to launch a web-page in another window. I don't think you can call a Perl script with this javascript event handler.

3. I want the web-page opened in the second window to run a Perl script which will try and find out the progress of the file upload and let the user know.

4. The above, of course, doesn't solve the problem of IIS timing out during a long file upload but that's another days work.

Merlyn has written a example script that uses fork to deal with the problem of monitoring long running processes but it is a Unix based script and I couldn't get it to run in a Win32 environment and I'm not even sure if it can be adapted for Win32.

Thanks

Eoin

In reply to Re: Re: (nrd) Executing Perl Script from a Web Page by Eoin Redmond
in thread Executing Perl Script from a Web Page by Eoin Redmond

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