Re: Retrieving Dyn-Data from CGI without reloading web-page? (javascript?)

someone said as much in the Chatterbox - this sounds like a job for JavaScript. Are there other methods I'm unaware of?

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RE: Re: Retrieving Dyn-Data from CGI without reloading web-page? by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 11, 2000 at 13:23 UTC
It was me talking in the Chatterbox. I don't think that JavaScript will do it as I don't know how you'd get the new data from the server. As I see it there are three options: Java applet CGI script with a refresh HTTP header (but this reloads the whole page which crazyinsomniac doesn't want) You might be able to use a non-parsed header script - but I don't know enough about them to comment. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> European Perl Conference - Sept 22/24 2000, ICA, London <http://www.yapc.org/Europe/>	[reply]

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It was me talking in the Chatterbox. I don't think that JavaScript will do it as I don't know how you'd get the new data from the server.

As I see it there are three options:

Java applet
CGI script with a refresh HTTP header (but this reloads the whole page which crazyinsomniac doesn't want)
You might be able to use a non-parsed header script - but I don't know enough about them to comment.