--- Mark Stosberg <suppressed> wrote:
> On 2006-04-27, B Wooster <suppressed> wrote:
> > I've seen people use Javascript (changing text on a page), using
> > redirects, etc to handle the case where a "please wait" screen has to
> > be shown on a submit.
> >
> > Are there best practices on doing this with CGI::Application?
>
> One pattern to address this was proposed by Randal Schwartz in 1997:
> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col20.html
>
> Simplified:
>
> Fork the long running process into the background. This process
> can report its status to a file as it goes.
>
> The page that the user sees can refresh it periodically, checking the status
> via the file and reporting back to the user.
>
> I've used this kind of pattern successfully myself.
>
haven't used mod_perl much. i am curious if it works well under mod_perl ?
Qiang
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