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There may be a client-side JavaScript solution along the lines you describe but that has nothing whatever to do with Perl so I won't discuss that here.

If you want a CGI script to return a response via the web server and also continue doing stuff in the backgroud you can just fork off and die. I should also point out that this is a generic CGI issue and also has nothing to do with Perl.

So what you need to do is have your CGI script call fork(). The parent will then print the redirect (using CGI::redirect) and exit.

The child will close(STDOUT);close(STDERR); (or if you are feeing more sane perhaps re-open STDERR to a log file somewhere).

In reply to Re: onSubmit Redirect by nobull
in thread onSubmit Redirect by hok_si_la

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