Thanks André Warnier On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:11 PM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> Uma Maheswara Rao M wrote: > >> Hi André Warnier, >> >> Is there any way we can control the browser timeout? >> > > At the browser level, none that I know of. > But even if there was one, there is a basic principle on the WWW : the > browser is under control of the user, so anything that you would do, the > users can undo. And they will. > > This being said, one way to avoid this problem is to arrange for sending > something from time to time from the server to the browser while your > application is working. Even if it is one byte, the browser will not give up > as long as it does not stay 5 minutes without receiving anything at all. > > The nice way of doing that is to have some kind of progress bar showing the > user that something is moving. > A lighter way is some message "Please wait..." with an additional dot from > time to time. > > I do not remember how to do that, but I am sure that someone on this list > will have a suggestion... > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
