Where you're checking the request status you're creating a new request each
time.
You need to store the XHR object from the request and use that (untested):
var xhr = $.post("/myhandler.php", params);
while (xhr.status != 200);
Alternatively you could use a globally accessibly variable which states
whether there is a pending request or not.
When a request is sent, set it true, when the response is received set it
false.
HTH
--rob
On 6/11/07, Phil Glatz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm calling $.post to send some text back to a web server, where it
gets logged. The function is something like this:
function send_message(msg) {
var params = {};
params['my_message'] = msg;
$.post("/myhandler.php", params);
}
It calls a php page that appends it to a log. If I view the log in
real time with tail -f log.txt, I can see the messages.
The problem is that if I set up a page to send 5 messages, they aren't
being displayed sequentially; I might see them in the order 2,1,4,3,5
-- and the order is random each time I call the page. What I would
like to do is wait until the post function completes before continuing
with the next message.
Since the post returns an XMLHttpRequest object, I thought I could try
some thing like:
while ($.post("/myhandler.php", params).status != 200)
But I think that simply keeps calling the function, making things
worse.
How can I query the post request for success, and not exit my function
until it is done?
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