SPUG: Web interface problem

[Daryn Nakhuda]

I'd love to hear a good way to do this as well.. Fork seemed to keep the 
little globe spinning in IE, but maybe I was doing it wrong. My hack to 
make it seem okay to the end user was just to schedule an at job (+10 
seconds) from the cgi, then tell them it was being processed. I then had 
another place where you could check the status of jobs (the script being 
run by at updated the database as it ran).



On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Mikel Tidwell wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm stumped on how to proceed on a page for a web interface I'm creating
> for my web site.  I want to be able to download a typically large file off
> another web server, and store it on the local server.  By large, I mean an
> average of 20 MB or so, but up to 100 MB at a typical rate of 30K/s.
> 
> Here's how I expect it to work:
> 
>  * User locates the file on another site, comes to the interface, and
> commands the file be downloaded.
>  * Script uses either LWP or `wget` to fetch file. <Problem>
>  * Script moves on to allow the person how to name the file, etc.
> 
> Problem: Downloading a file usually takes more than two minutes.  If the
> client doesn't time out by then, the web server will terminate the process
> anyway (cgi time limit in Roxen).  I could simply change this limit, but
> I'm looking for a smarter solution.
> 
> I thought about creating a child process, but I know very little about
> fork(), or what happens to the parent in this scenario.  I also have an
> issue with, should the child be able to download the file, notifying the
> user that the download was complete, so he/she can continue.
> 
> If this still makes any sense, please help.  Thanks... ^^
> 
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