yangtse has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Forks,

I am using Perl to write cgi to generate report. As the database is quite large the process usually takes about 10 min, Sometimes user keeps on pressing "submit" because the report was delyed too long, this actually makes things even worse.

My Question:

1. Can I display a "Loading Page" to tell user his request is being processed untill the process's done, it will display the report page?

2. If I can NOT display the loading page, can I set up some kind of script to avoid the user sumbmit same request again and again when the first one is being processed ?

Any help will be appreciated!!!

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Re: Loading page before the cgi exports all the data ?
by DamnDirtyApe (Curate) on Aug 21, 2002 at 14:50 UTC

    I believe merlyn's article here covers that.


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      Thanks a lot! That is cool!!!
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Re: Loading page before the cgi exports all the data ?
by dug (Chaplain) on Aug 21, 2002 at 14:55 UTC
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