Re: Show "progress" of a process using pl/sql web toolkit?

In article <1117544828.816506.302110_at_g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, Billy says...
> Jeremy wrote:
> > Platform: Oracle 9iR2 on Sun Solaris 9 with Oracle HTTP Server and
> > mod_plsql
> >
> >
> > We have made extensive use of the PL/SQL web toolkit (htp etc packages).
> > Sometimes submitting a form may result in an update that takes some
> > time. We would ideally like to be able to show the user some kind of
> > progress indicator but I cannot work out if how this can be done - has
> > anyone come up with any cunning solutions?
> >
> > I am thinking of a "refresh" set say to 5 seconds and which could show
> > the progress of the task... the problem of course is communicating that
> > progress.
>
> Exactly. A web browser is a stateless block device. In the standard
> 2-tier client-server systems we write (using Delphi/C#/etc), we usually
> deal with character devices and stateful connections.
>
> A good example of a character device is telnet. Every keystroke pressed
> is send to the server. The server sees every key and can respond
> interactively to each keypress - and statefully too.
>

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> Oh well..
>

Oh well indeed... I was hoping that you were going to round off your post with a "and this is how we've overcome this limitation"!

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jeremy