[ic] Please wait while your request is processed

Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:25:46 -0500

Bill Randle wrote:

> Are you thinking about $Document->send() and/or $Document->hot(1)?

That may be their intended purpose, but they don't work in that way. You
can try below with a while loop that goes 10000000 times, which takes
about 5 secs (on my server).

> 
> Another possibility, perhaps (untested):
>         <HTML>
>         <HEAD></HEAD>
>         <BODY>
>         <other tags you may want to use>
>         [mvasp]
>         <%
>             HTML "This will take awhile, please be patient...";
>             $Document->send(); # flush buffer
>             $Document->hot(1); # send stuff as soon as it's written
> 
>             # some perl task that takes awhile
>             # if there are some points in the process you can update the
>             # user status, so much the better. E.g.:
>             # foreach (@some_array) {
>             #   HTML " ."; # show another period as a progress indicator
>             #   some code that processes each item
>             # }
> 
>             HTML "<br>All done, thank you for waiting.";
>         %>
>         [/mvasp]
>         </BODY>
>         </HTML>
> 
>         -Bill
> 
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