cgi and popen

[Maarten van Veen]

A long story made short, I've build a python/cgi website consisting of 
two pages. Page1 has a html form in which you can input a series of 
queries. Then via Popen it starts a pythons search script, which stores 
the results in a python shelve.
As the Popen command is given it should redirect to page2, which will 
check if the shelve is ready (search finished) and if not displays a 
search page, refreshing itself after 10 seconds.
The Popen command works nice when tried out in the console. The script 
isueing the Popen quits, and the other process keeps on running till 
finished.
But when embedded in page1.cgi, page 1 waits till the search is 
finished, resulting in a browser timeout when big queries are done. It 
was this problem in the first place why I split up the page in two and 
added Popen.
Does anybody know how to get the page not waiting on Popen to finish?

thnx
Maarten