Hey Dude,
The first time I did this was about 10 years ago, and that app is
still tick'n along fine, no complaints.
Just don't set your IFRAME'd page refresh time too short (make it 5
minutes or greater), because the extra workload on the server can add
up fast if you have lots of concurrent users.
Good luck.
Scott
On Jul-17-2009, at 4:05 PM, WebDude wrote:
I have always had a problem with long forms and having user info
expire before the forms were filled. I have done long forms in
sections with a submit for every page. I have done timed javascripts
that calls a pop-up after 25 minutes telling the user to save and
continue. Yada Yada Yada.
I am in the middle of putting together a very long form for a client
and decided to try a different approach. I load a taf into an iframe
with height and width attributes set to 1. The taf doesn't return
anything, it's just a header with a meta-refresh every 25 minutes
(1500 seconds).
Now call me dumb, but this works perfectly, as far as I can tell.
I've tested it on many forms, forums, in-house blogs, etc., and I
cannot get it to break. Every refresh refreshes the variables and
holds onto all the user info.
A really simple solution to what I thought was a vexing problem. I
just updated a bunch of stuff by adding the iframe at the bottom of
a bunch of form pages.
I cannot find any drawbacks to this... I hope I am not missing
something.
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