https Help Needed

[Mark Smith]

So redirecting the output stops it blocking? Wow, I never thought to  
try it...thanks, once again, Sarah!

Best,

Mark

On 30 Aug 2007, at 01:05, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> I don't know anything about HTTPS so can't help you there, but I do
> have a technique for non-blocking shell calls which might help. I have
> included my ping function below which uses the shell ping command with
> extra parameters that tell it to send the result to a file. Then I
> just have a loop that checks for that file and when it has arrived,
> reads the result that way.