send response back to web user over HTTP

[nell1]

Hi there,

I have an asp web application that will take information from a web user via a form. The info gets sent to the server for processing.... the processing then sends the info onto another external server for some more processing. This external server then sends back a response to the web server that then sends back a response to the web user depending on some more prosessing web server end.

That's the model anyway. I am fine with this technically until the very last section, the sending back of the response to the web user. My problem is how the web server, from recieving info from the other external server, will know how and where to push the response back to the web user?

Surely the initial HTTP session will be broken when the web server sends to the other external server?

Very confused!!

Any help gratefully received!!

Nell1

 

[peterve]

looks like you will need to write a 'refresh' mechanism in the results page (I'll call it results.asp),
that page will check your internal server (the one that will contain the results as soon as they are available)
and once the results become available, the results.asp needs to pick them up & display them to the web...

If the processing takes too long, then you could consider writing code in the back end to send back the results via email...

just my 2 cents
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