HttpWebResponse: only need headers

[Guest]

I call a perl script on a UNIX CGI server and only need the header
information, not the entire body.

The perl script returns the headers, but then uses a second process to do
the bulk of the work.

I get the response back in less than a second with the information that I
need in the headers. If I open the stream, it takes a few minutes to get the
body.

If I don't open the stream or close the response, I'm done in less than one
second. If I don't close the response, I get all sorts of connection
problems because of the open streams.

How can I close the response and not wait until the second CGI process is
complete?

Thanks, Richard

 

[bruce barker \(sqlwork.com\)]

if the perl script honors the HEAD request, you could try that. other than
that use a shorter timeout or the async routines.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)