Thanks for all your help guys, Will have a think about it,
Marty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randal L. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Perrin Harkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Andrew Ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Martin Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 7:43 AM Subject: Re: Please wait Handler > >>>>> "Perrin" == Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Perrin> Andrew Ho wrote: > >> Make an HTML page which does a form submit to pleasewait.pl. pleasewait.pl > >> just displays an HTML page with an animated "please wait" image on it, and > >> its headers include the following header: > >> Refresh: 1; url=http://www.example.com/getresults.pl?args... > > Perrin> That's what Randal does in the article that I posted (although his > Perrin> puts it in a META tag). It's called client pull, and was introduced > Perrin> by Netscape at the same time as server push. > > There's a later better example of that (self-cleaning, etc) > at <http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col39.html>. > > I usually don't recycle ideas unless I can put a new slant on it. > Check out the new slant. :) > > -- > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> > Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. > See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! >
