BASH CGI script - how to close web page
Question
I apologise if this question seems silly.
I have a BASH script stored in the cgi-bin directory. The script is called through a browser window. A couple of query_string arguments are included in the URL, and the script outputs a .html file. It all works as it should. Is there a way to close the browser window once the script has finished running? Does the script even need the browser to remain open for the whold period it is running?
Using unix/Apache/Samba. The web instance is launched from Windows 7.
Thanks.
1 answers
solution1
0 ACCPTED 2013-12-15 23:58:59
So I solved this issue with a simple redirection of stdout once my html output file was built, and some basic html to close the browser window.
exec 3>&1 4>&2
exec > output.html
echo "my html stuff"
exec >&3 2>&4
echo "Content-type: text/html"
echo ""
echo "<html><head><title>Close browser</title>"
echo "<script type='text/javascript'>"
echo "window.open('', '_self', ''); window.close();"
echo "</script></head><body>"
echo "</body></html"
She may not be the prettiest, but it works a treat. Note that this solution is IE specific, in so far as the window closing line is a hack to avoid the security popup that a script is trying to close the page. I only need this to work in IE for the moment.
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