How can I start a long-running jobs in Catalyst with progress bar?
catalyst, perl, progress-bar
Solution
You might try Catalyst::Plugin::UploadProgress. Its intended to be used for file uploads, but I'm thinking it can be used for what you're doing as well since you're downloading the URL (which is honestly like uploading a file to the server anyways).
Problem
How would I start a long-running job from within a Catalyst app? I want a page from which the user can upload a list of URLs, and the application would then go and download these URLs. I need to implement an AJAX progress indicator that would then show the status of this job.