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in reply to Re: Gez
in thread Have CGI call script, display status in browser

Sorry, I should have been more specific The perl script I am trying to start from a submit button, creates text files based on data read from a database, then saves these files to disk. Its output just prints 'RUNNING', and 'COMPLETE' to STDOUT, which in this case needs to be an HTML form so that I know the status of the perl script

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Re: Re: Re: Gez
by Juerd (Abbot) on Mar 14, 2002 at 17:11 UTC

    which in this case needs to be an HTML form so that I know the status of the perl script

    First, output 512 bytes to make browsers render. Some browsers will never render until the page is loaded completely (like Konqueror), but this works with at least Mozilla and MSIE.
    Then, start outputting.

    It's a very good idea to set $| to 1, to avoid all buffering. You could use javascript to make it look good.

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; $|++; sub set_status { my ($status) = @_; print '<script> document.getElementById("status").innerHTML = "' . $status . '"; </script>"'; } print qq{Content-Type: text/html\n <html><body><div style="font-size:288pt;"> Current status: <div id=status>Initialising</div> <!-- }, "Z" x 512, q{ --> </div></body></html> }; sleep 2; set_status 'RUNNING'; sleep 5; set_status 'COMPLETE';

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