Python and CGI

[Cameron Laird]

In article <399B6AC6.55B5C04E at pehr.net>, pehr anderson  <pehr at pehr.net> wrote:
>Dear Drew, 
>
>One way to make your web app deal with this is
>to launch a thread to do the long-running task, 
>then feed the user a page with a "reaload"
>meta-tag in the header that tells his browser
>to load the page every three seconds or so.
>
>As you fill in the content in your thread, 
>store it in an accessable file, and have the
>auto-reloading cgi generate a non-reloading
>page once the data is completed!
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For details of related ideas, in principal you should see <URL:http://
www.regularexpressions.com#push2>.  This is a bit of a tease, though;
I've planned a four-part series on these push techniques, but been too
busy with other topics to publish the last two parts.
-- 

Cameron Laird <claird at NeoSoft.com>
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