On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:08:48AM -0500, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> Martin Moss wrote:
> >I was wondering if it is possible to Create a Handler that points a user
> >at a page with an animated gif saying something like "Please wait", and
> >then when my other handlers have finished display the page results I
> >want from my mod perl handlers.
>
> The classic answer to this problem is described by Randal in one of his
> Web Techniques columns:
> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col20.html
>
> You can also try server push (with the "Content-type:
> multipart/x-mixed-replace" header), but I'm not sure how consistently
> today's browsers implement that.
I know bugzilla does just that ("Please wait" message when a query is
performed), and it works on my Netscape 4.7, Mozilla, and IE browsers.
I think it is a much better solution than that given by Randal.
- Dmitri.
