[Zope] Telling Users to Wait

19 Nov 2001 21:20:10 +0000

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.

Cheers, Matt