I am a newbie here... (I forgot to I give a title to my node) searched the Perl Monks DB for some enlightenment. I realized that I am not the only one trying to print that "waiting page" while the server is busy doing DB updates. I have some hope that a gentle soul will help me out.

So here is what i've got so far....
First my web server is IIS on Win2K. I am using ActivePerl v5.6.1 (and I wish I wasn't).
I know that the waiting.pl script is being executed (ExitCode is fine). The problem is that it nevers get redirected to waiting.htm. Maybe I do everything wrong, and if so, you can laugh your guts out... but pretty please explain me why it doesn't work. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
##################################
#
#    main.pl
#
#################################

use strict;
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';


######### Here we go:  We read the forms and so .....

use Win32;
use Win32::Process;

my $ProcessObj;
my stuffTerminated = false;
    
Win32::Process::Create($ProcessObj,
            "c:/perl/bin/perl.exe",
             "perl c:/myPerlScriptsDir/waiting.pl",
             0,
             NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,
             ".") || die "Create";
             
             
######### do stuff while user waiting 
sleep(10);

######### when we are done, we signal waiting.pl
open S, ">c:/MyPath/signal.xxx";
print S "stuffTerminated";
close S;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Thank you for waiting... blah-blah-blah";
                           
exit;



#!/usr/bin/perl
##################################
#
#    waiting.pl
#
#################################
use strict;
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';

if ( ! open(S, "c:/MyPath/signal.xxx") )
{
    #redirect to waiting
    my $redirect = "http://myserver/mywebsite/waiting.htm";
    print "HTTP/1.0 303 See Other\r\n" if $ENV{PERLXS} eq "PerlIS";  #
+ for perlIS.dll";
    print "Location: $redirect\n\n";
}
exit;

#################################
#
#NOTE: waiting.htm has a refresher to waiting.pl
################################

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Maybe there are some syntax errors in there... But the idea remains the same. Now, I am going to walk the dog - Ikare

In reply to Printing that "waiting" page or call it win32::process::create problem by ikare

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