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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Sending requests to BOA while CGI is running...

Hi all, My problem is very simple : After choosing some parameters in a classic HTML page, a CGI script is launched (according to the user parameters) but the program inside the cgi is ver...
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16 years ago

Apache can connect to an already running CGI program. This is an extension to the normal way CGI works.

I don't think that boa can do something like this.

I suggest you create an always running daemon program that does the complex work and have the CGI program communicate with that daemon via a pipe.

-Michael