On 3/26/07, Pierre THIERRY < nowhere.man@levallois.eu.org> wrote:

Scribit Tobia dies 26/03/2007 hora 21:51:
> Although, if the operation is very lengthy (say, more than a minute)
> you should consider an anyncronous approach: a separate working thread
> plus client-side page refreshes (or AJAX or an iframe) for status
> polling.

AJAX is maybe a bit overkill here. Many sites just show an intermediate
page with an immediate refresh to goes to the URL of the lengthy
computation.

As all browsers won't redraw anything before they get data, you can then
use the "data as return value" paradigm for both handlers, the
intermediate page and the lengthy computation.

Alternatively,
Pierre
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