Thanks everyone, I've fotten it to work and used a 0 refresh rate.
Everything seems to be working just fine. Thanks for the help.
-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Houle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, March 29, 1999 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: Creating a "please wait" page
>Why is it nasty? He said his query already takes 30 seconds. Setting
refresh to 5 would do nothing but add 5 seconds to original query's 30
(which wouldn't start processing until that refresh happened.)
>
>>>> "William G. Thompson, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/26 5:26
PM >>>
>Refresh time of zero is a bit nasty..
>How about a 5 sec refresh with a small animated gif on the please wait
page.
>
>Bill
>
>On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Dave Ferguson wrote:
>
>> You can use a meta tag with a refresh time of zero. Like this:
>>
>> if ( session.getValue("waitPage")==null )
>> {
>> session.putValue( "waitPage", Boolean.TRUE );
>> PrintWriter writer = req.getWriter();
>> writer.println( "<HTML>" );
>> writer.println( "<HEAD><TITLE>Please wait</TITLE>" );
>> writer.println( "<META http-equiv="Refresh" content="0">" );
>> writer.println( "</HEAD>" );
>> writer.println( "<BODY>" );
>> writer.println( "<CENTER><H2>Please wait.....</H2></CENTER>" );
>> return;
>> }
>> else
>> {
>> session.removeValue( "waitPage" );
>> }
>>
>> // Do your database pull here
>> // Until you send back data, browser will continue to show "please
wait"
>>
>> - Dave F.
>>
>> > Dave Muehling wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello all.
>> >
>> > I have the folowing problem. I'm trying to create a "please wait while
getting results" page during a database pull.
>> >
>> > Every time I try to insert code to bring up a page that says "please
wait...", I either never get beyond that code (on the front end) or I get my
results on the same page, at the same time, after a considerable wait.
>> >
>> > The DB takes approx. 30 sec. to do a very large query and I would like
to have some kind of page come up to distract the user from this wait time.
>> >
>> > I think I need to somehow do a redirect, but how do I know when my page
is done being built? And how do I keep track of users if I leave and come
back? I looked into signing each result set with a session variable but
couldn't figure it out.
>> >
>> > Please help.
>> >
>> > Dave Muehling
>>
>>
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