Fellow Monks:
Here is the gist of what I am trying to accomplish and the stumbling block (hopefully minor) that I have encountered. I am creating a data download tool that interacts with a database. The user selects the data items and time range then submits the request through the HTML/CGI web interface. The selected variables/info are transfered to the associated perl script which downloads and presents the data via an anonymous ftp link. When the data request is submitted to the script a popup-progress window is generated indicating that the download is in-progress.
Now normally when the process is initiated for small to medium sized data requests the perl script, as planned returns to the progress popup the display note the the download is done and provides a link to the data. This is good to go up to about 5 minutes or so of wait time. With larger downloads the script continues to run, but from what I can guess the window times out and the connection between the progress window and script is lost such that when the script is done and the data with directory is created the script is unable to communicate back to the original window the final data location.
Ultimately The question is: What do I need to do, what little snippet of code do I need to implement to keep this communication link alive for a time on the order of 30+ minutes or so??
Any help and or insight that you can provide would be greatly appreciated... I am thinking that this is probably something very simple that I just don't know about yet. Thanks in advance for your help.

In reply to Keeping a popup progress window alive by Anonymous Monk

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