Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 21 January 2006 20:42, sophie_newbie wrote: > > To give you a better explaination of what I want, you could visit > > www.pat2pdf.org. > > > > Type in 123456 as the patent number, you see what it does? It tells the > > user that it is requesting the various TIFF images and then displays > > the link to the PDF file that it has created. > > Ah, so you are trying to get the page displayed while your CGI is still > running? Try flushing stdout after you print something. Otherwise the > output will only be sent when the CGI ends or the buffer is full.
...unless you run Python with the -u option, which makes output unbuffered (and, if on Windows where it matters, binary). However, it's not sufficient to ensure the user's browser will show the messages you want when you want. A much more reliable way to achieve that is to use timed redirects, or an AJAX (Javascript-based) solution. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
