How would you do a "Wait..." page

[tlhawkins]

I had a "wait..." page on a site and when I moved it to IIS6 it totaly stopped working. It output the wait message and then used Response.Flush to send that to the browser while it finished loading the results. Once all the results were loaded it hid the "wait" message. I've tried a lot of things to get that working again with no success.

So... I'm looking for ideas on how to make an interum wait page between the search form and search results because sometimes it can take a full minute to get results and there is nothing that can be done to speed that up. We've found that we definitely loose people waiting for the results when the "Wait" page doesn't work.

So, one idea was to have an actual page in between that accepted the search criteria and displays the "Wait" message and then passes the search criteria on to the search results page. That one seems like a lot of work for a simple process.

Have any better ideas?

Travis Hawkins

http://www.bestcodingpractices.com

 

[Sheco]

Could you do a two queries. Overall this would make it take longer but maybe if you first do a faster "preliminary verison" you could send the first 10 results and then flush that to the browser along with a message the full/final results may take a few mins.

 

[tlhawkins]

not a bad idea, if it was a query that was taking the time. It's a call to a web service. There is nothing I can do about how long it takes.

Travis Hawkins

http://www.bestcodingpractices.com