Greetings Monks

I have a question, probably easy for most but it's got me stumped...

I have a script that runs when called by the browser, as you would normally expect. The problem is that the script needs to respond quickly so the user can go on to other things (due to short user attention spans, etc) then carry on to complete the actual processing and not terminate, which appears to be the case with my simple code at present.

For example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -T

print "content-type:text/html\n\n";
print qq~<head>
<body>
<h1>Thanks, you may go now</h1>
</body>
</html>~;

open (COMPANY,"./data/long_list_of_company_names.txt");
while (<COMPANY>) {
  # do something really exciting here like create
  # a report and write it to the web space

  # do lots of error checking too, not detailed here
}
close (COMPANY);

# no more output, user has gone, but it would maintain a log of activi
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I hope this makes the point, because I don't know the correct terms. I've experimented with fork, but can't prove this is working.

Your ideas would be appreciated very much indeed.

moggs!

In reply to Keeping the script running after the Brower closes by moggs

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