[users@httpd] Close browser session while CGI is still active

[Steve Swift <st...@gmail.com>]

Can a CGI script close the session with the browser before it exits?

I tried closing STDOUT and STDERR in the hope that Apache might notice, and
clean up the session, but the browser remained waiting.

I have a CGI script that send its page to the browser then has a "batch" job
to do, which takes several minutes.
At the moment I'm handling it by creating a detached task to run the batch
portion but since the batch process requires access to the variables that
built the HTML page it would be much simpler if I could manage it in one run
of the CGI script.

-- 
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk

Re: [users@httpd] Close browser session while CGI is still active

[Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>]

On 11/24/06, Steve Swift <st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can a CGI script close the session with the browser before it exits?
>
> I tried closing STDOUT and STDERR in the hope that Apache might notice, and
> clean up the session, but the browser remained waiting.
>
> I have a CGI script that send its page to the browser then has a "batch" job
> to do, which takes several minutes.
> At the moment I'm handling it by creating a detached task to run the batch
> portion but since the batch process requires access to the variables that
> built the HTML page it would be much simpler if I could manage it in one run
> of the CGI script.

http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/cgifaq.3.html#8

Joshua.

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Re: [users@httpd] Close browser session while CGI is still active

[Steve Swift <st...@gmail.com>]

That's what I'm doing now, but its cumbersome.  I'd hoped that I could get
away with a couple of closes, but no such luck.
It happens quite often in my CGI scripts that I finish the webpage then have
to do some tidying-up that just keeps the browser waiting.

On 24/11/06, long <xi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Since you already using a detached task to run the batch job, if it's not
> too much work and the result of the batch job is not a requirement for the
> response, can you just pass your variables to the batch job?



-- 
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk

Re: [users@httpd] Close browser session while CGI is still active

[long <xi...@yahoo.com>]

Since you already using a detached task to run the batch job, if it's not too much work and the result of the batch job is not a requirement for the response, can you just pass your variables to the batch job?

Steve Swift <st...@gmail.com> wrote:  Can a CGI script close the session with the browser before it exits?

I tried closing STDOUT and STDERR in the hope that Apache might notice, and clean up the session, but the browser remained waiting.

I have a CGI script that send its page to the browser then has a "batch" job to do, which takes several minutes. 
At the moment I'm handling it by creating a detached task to run the batch portion but since the batch process requires access to the variables that built the HTML page it would be much simpler if I could manage it in one run of the CGI script. 

-- 
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk 

 
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