FYI, for anyone else who might want a solution for this.. I ended up doing it using an alternate reverse ajax which closes the connection after an update is sent.
On the first call, the client requests a long-executing call be started. The server starts a thread to perform the request and returns an ID to identify the request. The client then updates the page UI and immediately requests an update from the server. The server sits on the request (pauses the request thread) until new status information is available, at which point it sends the status back to the client (I use XML do to the infrastructure of my site, you could use JSON). The client then updates the UI again. This repeats until the state received from the server indicates the call is complete. - Jamie On Jan 25, 8:47 am, Jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > Has anyone ever tried any reverse ajax solution using jQuery? I have > a slow-loading ajax call and would like the server to send back status > updates through the open HTML connection. Does anyone know how I > could gain access to the server response data as in comes in, rather > than at the completion of the ajax call? > > Thanks! > Jamie Goodfellow
