in reply to CGI progress indicator

Thanks for your comments. If I was wanting to display an html page while another process handles the mailing task, how could I achieve this? As stated I am posting the data to another cgi script. Should I look into spawning another a child process. Or would this still result in the whole cgi script requiring to be processed before data can be displayed. I looked at redirecting, but again the script must compile first. Thanks

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Re^2: CGI progress indicator
by ickyb0d (Monk) on Aug 26, 2005 at 22:14 UTC
    i've dealt with something similar to this in the past, however it was a server downloading files instead of sending out emails.

    once the user submits, just simply fork off your mailing process (giving it all the info it needs... to, from, message etc.) This should run in the background while the browser is redirected to your CGI progress page, thus not causing your webpage to hang while emails are being sent.

    In my case i just made a command line script that was set to take in command line arguments. i think i implimented it by just using an exec(ftp_dl <arguments>). So i'm not sure how you might impliment this using exclusively webpages.
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