{removing foot from mouth} I thought the refresh page was polling to
see if the request was ready. This is an approach we have used in the
past. Dave's approach seems to be better. :)
Cheers,
Bill
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Darren Houle wrote:
> 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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