Re: Slow HTTP Responses

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From: henrich@rs560.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
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Subject: Re: Slow HTTP Responses
To: www-talk-request@www0.cern.ch (Lou Montulli)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 18:34:36 -0500 (EST)
In-reply-to: <9401132229.AA19058@stat1.cc.ukans.edu> from "Lou Montulli" at Jan 13, 94 04:29:05 pm
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> This sort of thing becomes VERY important for any sort of
> long database search.  As forms really take off I expect to
> see more and more long searches, some indication of server
> progress is important, even if its nothing more that a message
> saying: Still processing.

You are absolutely correct!  I happen to be one of those folks that dont trust
computers at all, if I dont see output, something is probably broken.
Especially for long searches, or other activites that are take a fair amount of
time, the server should be able to send a simple message "Yup, Im still here,
still working, gimme another 15 minutes"

-Crh

    Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu

                     http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/