On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 14:06:40 GMT
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Long waits on SQL Stored Procs. Should I use chained content
handlers?
>
> I need to run some stored procedures that take upwards of a minute to generate
> result sets. Ok, thats grand but I dont want the browser to sit there and
> twiddle.
>
> I'd like to display an animated gif. Simple. Right? I hope.
>
> I'm looking into chained handlers in my mod_perl code, but I'm not sure if this
> is what I need.
>
> 0) Request page and report.
> 1) Push 'Waiting...' animated gif
> 2) Process report, Perl waits for result set
> 3) Perl pushes the report html to the browser as if it opened in a target =
> _blank window. IE: That same window...
> Stumped (or rather -> RTFMing),
>
> Any ideas? I cant, for the life of me, figure out how this would work with
> http redirects, and thought there might be something with mod_perl that would
> help this. Fork() maybe. I'm trying a few ideas.
>
> Thanks a bunch. If this is slightly OT, I apologize.
>
> Tom Sullivan,
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Could you make the page displaying the animated gif have a "refresh" tag
of maybe 30 (or fewer) seconds, at the end of which it could redirect
to a page that could see if the query has finished? If not, it would
return to the animated gif page again and wait some more.
ky
