One solution, if you do not want to wait for the response, is to send a confirmation page that the script received the request. Once the script has received the request and sent the confirmation page, send all output to a file and not to STDOUT.

You can still test the resulting files vs. messages (but not to the client). If the test passes, the script can then send an email to the user's email address (this would have to be in the form?).


Another solution could be to send characters(maybe ' 's or '.'s), at intervals to the client. This could help overcome the timeout issues as well. If this aproach were taken, immediately send about 256 whitespace characters to overcome any buffers that may be in the server (or client). I have used this approach, along with '$|=1' to overcome timeout issues.

While there may be other/better solutions, I hope this helps.

Mick

In reply to Re: Execute with No wait by mrmick
in thread Execute with No wait by bp

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