Hi Zaxo,

Thanks for the link to "CGI, there were some interesting examples there about how to use JS. I guess my post is two-fold, one is to inform the user some way (gas gauge, JS,etc), and the other is to continue processing, even if the user presses 'stop' or closes the browser window. I think sometimes they are getting too impatient and just exiting, thinking that everything is done. Ideally, I would like to give them the opportunity to close/exit after they press the "Confirm/submit" button, and simply continue doing all the processing. The logs at present indicate some users have no idea that it is still 'processing'.

I have been reading this node on Lauching multiple processes, which may be the way to go (spawn a child process) ?

Thanks,

Peter

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