continuously updating page

Zak Burke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webobjects.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The toy Perl script attached below will create a page that continuously 
adds new content to the response as it is being generated. I'd like to 
do something similar in WO. This is different than a WOLongResponsePage 
because it doesn't do a meta-refresh to grab new data; it simply keeps 
adding to the response as more data is available.

I couldn't figure out how to do something similar in WO because super is 
called at the *end* of your appendToResponse method, which means you 
wind up waiting for your long-running-process to complete before sending 
the data, which is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. I want to append to 
the response continuously as new data is available.

TIA,

zak.


#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$|++;  # unbuffer standard out for continuous feedback
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
for (1..10)
{
	print "new item<br />";
	sleep 1;
}
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.