Top Document: FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about CGI Programming Previous Document: 3.8 Can I launch a long process and return a page before it's finished? Next Document: 3.10 Can I password-protect my pages? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge This does not fit well with the basic mechanics of the Web, in which each transaction comprises a single request and response. If your processing can be done on the Client machine, you can use a clientside application; for example a Java applet. For processing on the server, one trick that works well for Clients running an X server (and far more efficient than a JAVA solution) is: if ( fork() ) { print HTML page explaining what's going on and advising about xhost } else { exec ("xterm -display THEIR_DISPLAY -title MY_APP -e MY_PROG ARGS < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 &") ; } NOTE: THEIR_DISPLAY is not necessarily the same as REMOTE_HOST or REMOTE_ADDR. You have to ask users to supply their display (set REMOTE_HOST as default). A JAVA terminal program will accomplish something similar for the many users with platforms that support JAVA but not X. User Contributions:Top Document: FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about CGI Programming Previous Document: 3.8 Can I launch a long process and return a page before it's finished? Next Document: 3.10 Can I password-protect my pages? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
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