Sebastian Bassi wrote: > On 26 Apr 2007 14:48:29 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In order to work around this problem, I started printing empty strings >> (i.e. print "") so that the browser does not timeout. > > How do you print something while doing the query and waiting for the results? > I saw some pages that display something like: "This page will be > updated in X seconds to show the results" (X is an estimated time > depending of server load), after a JS countdown, it refresh itself and > show the result or another "This page will be updated in X seconds to > show the results".
The usual way is by "client pull": send the content you want the user to see, and include a Refresh: header - the easiest way is to include a META tag in the html content <head> section like <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="N; URL=other-web-address"> So the page can continually check whether the user's job is finished, if it isn't just sending out the same content and then when it is printing the details. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden ------------------ Asciimercial --------------------- Get Python in your .sig and on the web. Blog and lens holdenweb.blogspot.com squidoo.com/pythonology tag items: del.icio.us/steve.holden/python All these services currently offer free registration! -------------- Thank You for Reading ---------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
