On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:08:48AM -0500, Perrin Harkins wrote: > Martin Moss wrote: > >I was wondering if it is possible to Create a Handler that points a user > >at a page with an animated gif saying something like "Please wait", and > >then when my other handlers have finished display the page results I > >want from my mod perl handlers. > > The classic answer to this problem is described by Randal in one of his > Web Techniques columns: > http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col20.html > > You can also try server push (with the "Content-type: > multipart/x-mixed-replace" header), but I'm not sure how consistently > today's browsers implement that.
I know bugzilla does just that ("Please wait" message when a query is performed), and it works on my Netscape 4.7, Mozilla, and IE browsers. I think it is a much better solution than that given by Randal. - Dmitri.