On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 23:43:06 -0400, "Christopher Painter-Wakefield"
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> With this we just add "pleasewait/" to the front of any URL on our pages 
> that are long running.  When the user clicks on one of these links, a 
> simple page will show with the please wait message.  The page will tell 
> the browser to immediately refresh to the actual URL, which we extracted 
> from the pleasewait URL.  This is the same mechanism that websites use
> for 
> those "This site has moved, you will be taken to the new site in 15 
> seconds..." except we use a timeout of zero seconds.  The browser keeps 
> displaying the please wait page until it begins to get a response from
> the 
> server on the new page.  Works great!

Splendid! I've always wondered how this was done! Thanks.

Regards, Upayavira

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