I have a command-line utility that takes in a set of arguments, a file of data, does a bunch of crunching, and then creates a set of files of output. I would like to make this funcitonality available via the web. I can certainly put together a little CGI to do this, but was surprised to find after glancing at CPAN that a tool for doing so wasn't already available. It seems the steps are pretty straightforward:
  1. Get and process form input
  2. Fork off long-running process
  3. Return HTML page for either auto-refresh or with URL for pickup
  4. Optional: email user with URL when job complete
Before I go down the road of doing this myself, is there such a module for this general problem? Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Sean

In reply to Perl modules for batch web processing by srdst13

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