Greetings gdnew,

This isn't really so much a Perl question as it is a browser GUI + network communication question. Essentually, at least as far as I understand your question, you want to have a client-side visual progress bar that tracks something that's progressing on the server. There are many ways that you could handle this, each have advantages and disadvantages.

You could try:

• HTML with Client pull
• HTML with Server push
• Java applet
• Flash (Shockwave) thing that pings much like Client pull
• At least one more option I haven't thought of yet

What sort of things are you trying to do with this progress bar thing? What are you wanting to show progressing? That will help isolate perhaps what method should be used.

-gryphon
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