[Zope] Telling Users to Wait

Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:27:26 -0500

[Matt Goodall]

> On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 20:52, Casey Duncan wrote:
> > On Monday 19 November 2001 02:39 pm, Edmund Goppelt allegedly wrote:
> > > How do I warn my users that a given Zope page will take a long time to
> > > load?  Is there any way to load a preliminary "please wait this may
> > > take a while" page while the user waits for the real page to load?
> >
> > The only way I know of is to use Javascript (although there may be a
RESPONSE
> > header you can set).
>
> There is:
>
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="3;URL=very_slow_page_html">
>
> Add it to the <head> section of the please wait page. The 3 is how soon
> after the redirect should happen so you'll probably want to use 0.
>

I was going to suggest this as well, but I realized I wasn't sure how to get
the form data to very_slow_page.html.  I guess the original responding page
could write it into the meta tag URL attribute, if it were suitable for a
GET rather than a POST.

Tom P