cgi-script shell script wrapping question

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2010/12/27 shimi <linux-il at shimi.net>

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> 2010/12/27 Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld at gmail.com>
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>> I'm trying to write a cgi wrapper for a long running command. The command
>> takes about 10minutes to execute and when running it from the command line
>> it continously outputs text to stdout. A simplistic cgi-bin wrapper that
>> tries to execute the script and then writes that it is done fails with the
>> following message:
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>>  Timeout waiting for output from CGI script ...
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>> What I wonder if there is any easy way to have continously update the web
>> page with stdout of the script.
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>> One way, I guess would be to run the script in a separate thread and just
>> do HTML reload on a static page which I would regenaret with the stdout
>> generated so far.
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>> Is there any other simple solution?
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> You could increase the timeout to be > running time of the script ...
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Do not forget that you also have timeout of the web browser that you can not
control (you can not control the users themselves).


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