I know, I'm probably missing some fundamental CGI.pm thing here that I've overlooked a dozen times now - but here's what I would like to do:

Accept input from user -> pass input to a third party server AND display "waiting for your results" HTML page (it can take awhile) -> results return/CGI processes them -> display new HTML page with results.

I've looked in the archives and seen a couple tips, but nothing substantial enough to push me in the right direction-
* don't fork, for speed's sake
* use Apache callbacks (I don't know what/how these are referring too - Google was no help)

Would it be good practice/acceptable to run two CGI scripts, one after another? (a waiting.cgi and a results.cgi script) Any other suggestions, tips, wisdom?

Thanks!

In reply to CGI - Load HTML while waiting for process to finish/display more HTML by rkmase

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