Re^5: GET a file without waiting for the result?

If your program runs within any webserver environment, you won't get things any simpler than that unless you can explain what environment exactly you have.

Spawning an external process and displaying its progress is about as simple as you can get.

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Re^6: GET a file without waiting for the result? by DreamT (Pilgrim) on Sep 22, 2010 at 14:14 UTC
Ok. I will get to that, but another question first: Maybe i can make a separate script for itm that I call via system()? `system("fetchmyfile.pl $url $destination_file")` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: GET a file without waiting for the result? by JavaFan (Canon) on Sep 22, 2010 at 14:18 UTC
That waits until fetchmyfile.pl is finished.	[reply]
Re^8: GET a file without waiting for the result? by DreamT (Pilgrim) on Sep 22, 2010 at 14:22 UTC
Damn :-)	[reply]
Re^7: GET a file without waiting for the result? by DreamT (Pilgrim) on Sep 22, 2010 at 14:28 UTC
I don't have a perfect description of the environment, but here goes: - OS: Linux (Ubuntu server 9.04) - Apache 2 - perl 5.10.10	[reply]
Re^7: GET a file without waiting for the result? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 22, 2010 at 19:58 UTC
Proc::Background	[reply]