On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:44:35 -0500
"will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> debianistas tend to know where to look, so i'm hoping someone
> will point the way--
>
> i know i've run across it before but when i WANT to stub my toe
> on it, it's nowhere to be found: HOW can i have apache/web page
> initiate a process and return quickly to generate a 'processing,
> hold on' page while the process does its processing?
>
how about using multipart/x-mixed-replace?
#!/usr/bin/perl
$|=1;
print "Content-type:
multipart/x-mixed-replace\;boundary=---random_string---\n\n";
print "\n---random_string---\n";
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<h2>Processesing. Please wait...</h2>";
print "\n---random_string---\n";
#
#################################################################
## code to process the images and possibly send updates to the ##
## browser (like the name of each file as it's processed) ##
#################################################################
#
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<h2>Processesing Done</h2>";
print "\n---random_string---\n";
For more detail on multipart/x-mixed-replace
http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/pushpull.html
