Quick Questions

myriad posted this at 13:34 — 26th March 2000.

Joined: Mar 1999

Hi all,

Just a couple of quick questions:

Firstly I have a html page which calls
a cgi script. The script can take up to
a minute to complete. I just want to put
a message on the screen saying something
like "..please wait... processing.." just
to stop people thinking nothing is happening. If I put it into the html page
before the script is called it disappears.

Any Ideas?

Secondly I am about to move a new website
to permanent webspace after testing. I have
quite a few cgi scripts on the site some
will work in both Unix & NT which OS do you
think is better to go for?

Any help would be greatly appreciated -
Many thanks in advance.

Regards

Steve

Orpheus posted this at 19:16 — 26th March 2000.

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I think you should use an autoreload tag in the HTML or some javascript that will disapear after it loads.

And UNIX will always beat windows NT. Perl was meant to run on UNIX.

Rob Pengelly posted this at 19:23 — 26th March 2000.

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For the first question, you could just edit your script and add somthing simple like:

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "Status: Processing...<br>";

--Have script here--

print "Status: Done<br>":

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fairhousing posted this at 21:12 — 26th March 2000.

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u could have a javascript alert box pop up to let them know to be patient.