On 9/12/06, Dan Milstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you tell us what's different between your production and dev > > environment? That would include how the process is launched as well. > > And is there a difference in what modules get imported? > > Let me do some detective work -- I've got a bit of time now, so let > me see what I can find. If I come up blank, I'll pass on everything > I've got. > > > Also, even if you tapped into the cgi module, would you really be able > > to give the user a progress bar? It seems that their window would be > > tied up by the upload task being performed by the browser. > > It works by way of a Javascript function which polls the server every > few seconds and updates the progress bar. The tricky part is getting > some sort of identifier to the Javascript function so that it can > tell the server which upload it's asking about. When I generate the > page, I put in a new unique id which goes both into the URL of the > form action and into the Javascript code. The tapped cgi module then > gets that id from the URL and, as it fills the temp file, updates a > globally-accessible dict with info about the progress. The JS > function hits a servlet which just grabs the progress info from that > dict.
That's neat. I should have presumed it was a Javascript technique. Oops. I better say "AJAX" or I might not be employable. :-) -Chuck ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list Webware-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
