Shao: This is a very general question, and is only indirectly connected to Django, since the task could be performed in most web frameworks. However, the django-dev list is reserved to discussions about the development *of* Django.
For questions about development *with* Django you should address the django-users list. Thank you. regards Steve Shao wrote: > Dear ALL, > > I am very much interested in using a HTML to fire off a data > processing script to run over the internet. > > I will be very grateful if you can advise me on passing parameters > from an HTML form to a script and fire the script off to carry out > full execution, monitor its progress and return an innerHTML with link > (a name string of) the file generated back to allow user to download > the result. > > The script run over a period of 2 to 3 minutes. > > > Necessary are the following steps: > * user submits data to the server from a web page using an HTML form; > server redirects the browser to a status page that says "script is > running"; > * in the background, the server fires off a worker script that does > the job; the server monitors the script to see when it's done (this > monitoring can be tied to the status page: when the user reloads the > status page, the server looks at the script to check if it's done); > * user refreshes the page (or the page refreshes itself) until script > is finished, and the page says "script finished; here are the results" > * some kind of cleanup of data, either with a cron job or manually by > the user > > Regards. > > Shao > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
