Converting WordDocs to HTML on the Fly

Greetings All: I'm writing a document conversion routine that converts Word Documents in Linux. The utility is called wvhtml. It's based on WordView. I won't allow the web-user to write to my file-systems and the wvhtml utility requires the file to reside on the machine in order to parse it. My best effort is to pitch the file into a database (MySQL) and run a cron to save that record as a unique file in a secure place that the web-user can access. The cron job will convert the file, insert it into the database, and, delete the file. On the front end, the end-user will receive 5 second updates of status of the conversion process. Anyone know a better way to do this? I have the source code for wvhtml, and, could probably compile it into the Apache, which might make more sense. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. Regards, Van ========================================================================= Linux rocks!!! http://www.dedserius.com =========================================================================