note sutch One way to handle this is to use an HTML redirect. This has the added benefit of freeing memory in use by mod_perl processes that would otherwise be used for each waiting client connection.<p> An outline of how I've planned to handle it (note: I haven't implemented it yet, but plan to soon):<p> <code> receive request; if (request has no job_id) { create new job_id; start processing external commands (providing job_id); return an HTTP redirect with a 10 second pause, such as: <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="10;URL=http://sample.com/?id=job_id"> } else { if (external commands have completed) { return results; } else { return the HTTP redirect again; } } </code> 68498 68498