The simplest way to go about this (assuming you're sending out HTML) is to send out the "wait..." message in a div or some other structure containing an id attribute, and then when the final output is ready, send out a javascript snippet to remove or make invisible the wait... message. Or just use CSS that places the result right over the message.

This may need some tweaking with buffering, but it works. If the wait time is very long, you will still need to make sure that if the user stops / reloads the page it won't mess things up.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re: Wait ... Loading ... message in Perl/CGI by Joost
in thread Wait ... Loading ... message in Perl/CGI by vit

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