Didn't I say spawn the script in background? ;-)

In your cgi script, you just need to do this to kick off a background process -
# check if the 'Generate Report' button is clicked
# if so, then set $generate_report to true.

if ($generate_report) {
  # kick off background processing
  `C:\\Perl\\bin\\perl.exe generate_report.pl &`;

  # print some feedback text back to user
  print $cgi->header,
        $cgi->start_html,
        "The generate_report.pl script has started in background",
        $cgi->end_html;
}

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Where the back quotes `` tell perl to run the generate_report.pl script, and the '&' at the end puts the script in background. Your CGI script will return control immediately to the browser, leaving the report generation script to run in the background (without interfering with the browser).

In reply to Re: (3) Launch background perl script from CGI by Roger
in thread Launch background perl script from CGI by Anonymous Monk

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