[Zope] eCommerce with Zope

Ragnar Beer rbeer@uni-goettingen.de
Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:13:29 +0100


>Hi,
>
>>Howdy!
>>
>>I wonder how on-the fly verification of e.g. credit cards or whatever
>>else verification that could take some time can be done using Zope if
>>Zope doesn't support multipart content.
>>
>>As a user I'd expect to get an immediate feedback like "verifying your
>>credit card ... (please wait)" or "checking whether this domain name is
>>available ..." and then after a while see the results without any further
>>action. This is would be a typical job for multipart content-type,
>>wouldn't it?
>>
>>Is there a workaround or so to get this done with Zope?
>
>Sure. Multipart only works with Netrape anyway.

s**t! I only tried with IE5 Mac not Windoze. Do you know about IE 5.5 Win?

>The most elegant solution so far is to use a
>so called meta-refresh

The problem with that is the flickering. So I used it for redirects 
only so far.
But maybe it's more acceptable with 5 seconds delay or so.

[snip]

Ragnar