Trigger a CGI to run - CGI,do I have to wait for you?... (Posted by robbie)

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After you call a CGI from HTML file, browser will wait for the results from CGI. Can you just call CGI and browser don't need to wait cause of there's nothing to return to the client from CGI. And you know waiting takes time... Like a trigger, you just trigger to run a cgi program on the server,that's it.

For example, in my homepage I call a CGI to collect some information of clients, write to a LOG file, and nothing need to return to browser. Well, the server can do this job but I need it to handle some other special things...