Hi,

I have more or less the same problem.
The processing of a post might invoke timeouts if
responces are kept waiting too long.
So I have to start to report a page with 200 back
to tell something was correctly received.
Later on I use some strict codes
like
==>OK and
==>ERRORS and
==>WARNINGS
followed by ---<original text lines>

if something happens.

These come in <PRE> </PRE> blocks....
(so no special HTML layout is needed to send error messages. (In this case
I'm on the Publishers side of things).

Just waiting for all processing to complete and answer
the final status as a 200 or different HTTP error code might just take too
long. (as it is about uploading & processing files).

This ==> and --- signaling is done by the CGI
processing around the uploads, and "applications" are
generaly ignorant about being run within the
cgi script. (The can also be run from a commandline
if needed.)

regards,
Nico Baggus
Received on 2000-08-08