Telling a browser to keep a connection alive

[Madison Kelly]

Hi all,

   Does anyone know of a way to tell a web browser to not kill a 
connection (to a cgi script) that takes a certain period of time to respond?

   The reason I ask is that my perl program tries to spit out data to 
the browser every 30 seconds during a big job to keep the connection 
alive (I turn off buffering) but sometimes an external program I call 
holds things up for too long and the connection dies anyway.

   I know that I can increase the time-out on the webserver but from 
what I can tell the browser generally ends things.

   I'm worried that this option won't exist in browsers for valid 
security reasons...

   Thanks in advance!

Madison

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