Python and CGI

[pehr anderson]

Dear Drew, 

One way to make your web app deal with this is
to launch a thread to do the long-running task, 
then feed the user a page with a "reaload"
meta-tag in the header that tells his browser
to load the page every three seconds or so.

As you fill in the content in your thread, 
store it in an accessable file, and have the
auto-reloading cgi generate a non-reloading
page once the data is completed!

	-pehr



Drew Fisher wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I think this may be more of a CGI question, but I'm not too sure where
> else to go.
> 
> I have a python script that takes a long time to run and my
> Pointy-Haired Boss wants it to be a webpage.
> 
> Since the script takes longer than the Timeout parameter allows, I need
> to find a way to flush some of the data to the web page before the
> CGI script gets finished.
> 
> Can anybody help?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Drew Fisher