Out of curiosity, what if the original page contains a form with an upload
field? Any suggestions/ideas on how to provide a similar strategy? The
problem with the scenario is that it's the upload that will probably take
the most time...
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On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Cees Hek wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Why can't you just display your animated gif on a page with a refresh tag
> that loads the real page with the query in it. A refresh meta tag doesn't
> have to reload the same page again, you can redirect it to another URL.
> Your gif would be displayed, and you query would start right away.
>
> You have to make sure that you don't send out any data from your query
> script until you are ready to display the entire thing. The browser will
> not clear the screen until it receives some data from the server.
>
> The only other issue here is browser timeouts. If the page takes too long
> to display, the browser may drop the connection, but I've found that if a
> browser makes a connection, it will wait for a 'long' time for data to
> show up. I don't have any numbers, but it would be trivial to test.
>
> This method is great to stop people from hitting a link repeatedly if a
> page doesn't load right away.
>
> I've included a simple HTML page that we use to generate some reports that
> take up to 30 seconds to display
>
> Cees Hek
>
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0; URL=reports.cgi?sessionid=?????">
> </head>
>
> <body marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"
> bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
>
> <table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0"
> cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align=center>
> <tr>
> <td align="center" valign="center">
> <font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size=4 color=red>
> Please wait while creating reports...</font>
> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </body>
> </html>
>
