>>>>> "Perrin" == Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Perrin> Andrew Ho wrote: >> Make an HTML page which does a form submit to pleasewait.pl. pleasewait.pl >> just displays an HTML page with an animated "please wait" image on it, and >> its headers include the following header: >> Refresh: 1; url=http://www.example.com/getresults.pl?args... Perrin> That's what Randal does in the article that I posted (although his Perrin> puts it in a META tag). It's called client pull, and was introduced Perrin> by Netscape at the same time as server push. There's a later better example of that (self-cleaning, etc) at <http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col39.html>. I usually don't recycle ideas unless I can put a new slant on it. Check out the new slant. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
