CGI script won't stop

sparky8342 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

I've got a long running script that runs as a cgi file. It can take several minutes, or even hours.

What I'd like to do, is make the script halt when someone presses 'stop' on the browser, but this doesn't seem to have any effect.

I've tried:

use sigtrap qw(die PIPE);

sssuming that I should get a SIGPIPE, but the script just carries on running on the server.

Can anyone suggest what I can do here?

Thanks

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Re: CGI script won't stop by epoptai (Curate) on Jun 25, 2001 at 13:55 UTC
You can't stop a script with the browser's stop button. Here are some articles by merlyn* which detail techniques for stopping CGI scripts. -- Check out my Perlmonks Related Scripts like framechat, reputer, and xNN.	[reply]
Re: Re: CGI script won't stop by sparky8342 (Acolyte) on Jun 25, 2001 at 18:24 UTC
Thanks, I was getting a feeling that you couldn't detect the stop button :)	[reply]