Thanks for all the replies, but I don't think I posed my question in enough
detail. While setting refresh headers certainly works for just moving to
another page, my situation is this:
I need to be able to partially process the request in a servlet before I can
tell whether or not I can continue with displaying the resulting JSP display
page (which is the page which takes a while to process). It goes something
like this:
// get request parameters from form data, etc
RequestDispatcher rd = null;
req.setAttribute("resultBean", myBean);
setMyBeanData1()
setMyBeanData2()
if (isBeanDataCorrect())
{
// right here is the only place I can forward to the "Please wait.." page
// because all the data is correctly set in the bean
callMethodWithLongProcessTime()
rd = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/jsp/finalresults.jsp");
rd.forward(req, res);
}
else
{
// otherwise I forward directly to the error page
rd = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/jsp/errorpage.jsp");
rd.forward(req, res);
}
Thanks again for any help on this.
Mike
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>From: Colin Wilson-Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Long process
>Date: Tue, Aug 17, 1999, 1:29 AM
>
> One trick is to display a page that has a meta refresh tag that refreshes to
> your page that does all the work, that way you get whatever 'please wait...'
> page you want, and your other page appears when it's ready.
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