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[Thomas O'Neill]

I did something like what you see on orbitz.

Check it out..

http://tconeill.com/examples/pixelcrunch/



On 7/10/07, Tim Lieberman <tim_lists at o2group.com> wrote:
>
> Never really thought about it.
>
> If your backend processes is asynchronous (or if you make it so) you
> could have your "progress" script just meta refresh until the back-end
> has a result, and then on the next refresh, 302 out of there.
>
> Cliff Hirsch wrote:
> > For long and indeterminate page processing, like connecting with a
> > credit card payment gateway or calculating pi to thousands of
> > significant digits, what is your preferred method for displaying
> > "please wait"?
> >
> > I see two techniques:
> >
> >    1. Use Javascript upon form submission to display the "please wait"
> >       message
> >    2. Echo a "please wait" page from the server and then do a 302
> >       redirect upon completion of the scrpt.
> >
> >
> > Issues:
> >
> >    1. Not everyone uses JavaScript
> >    2. Can you issue a header redirect after echoing a "please wait"
> >       message. I though headers need to be sent first. Is a 302 header
> >       redirect an exception?
> >
> >
> > Cliff
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Tom O'Neill
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