[hunchentoot-devel] Showing progress to the user

[Edi Weitz]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:00:55 -0500, "Andrei Stebakov" <lispercat at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to know if there is some functionality in hunchentoot that
> would allow me to show the progress page to the user. Let's say a
> user click on a link handle by hunchentoot hander method which takes
> a lot of time to process. How can I show a page that says "Please,
> wait" which will redirect to the actual data view of the handler?
> Here I can think of only "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0;"
> but maybe there is something supported by the framework?

No, nothing in Hunchentoot, but there are various ways to do that.
You can for example search the mailing list archives for code to show
progress bars when uploading files.

> Sorry if my question is not totally related to hunchentoot.

No problem, but you're right - it's not really related IMO.