How do I create a splash page in Perl.

Contributed by Anonymous Monk on May 07, 2001 at 20:53 UTC
Q&A > CGI programming

Description:

I need to run a cgi script that takes around 10-15 seconds to gather all the data from another server. While the task is executing I would like users to see a nice static HTML page saying something like 'Task in progress...' and once the task has executed the splash page is replaced by the results. How can I do this? Thanks in advance. Mark

Answer: How do I create a splash page in Perl.
contributed by merlyn

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col20.html

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