real time info to web browser from apache side ?

Cameron Laird claird at lairds.us
Tue May 23 19:29:29 EDT 2006


In article <mailman.6123.1148421670.27775.python-list at python.org>,
Ben Finney  <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>"Joseph" <spmok2 at canada.com> writes:
>
>> So I am looking more for a push technology than a pull from teh
>> browser (user hit Ctrl-R to refresh is a pull).
>
>Not necessarily; just write the web page so that it instructs the
>browser to do the pull automatically, without refreshing the entire
>page.
>
>This has come to be known as AJAX (though, because this is the sort of
>thing JavaScript was designed for, some just call it JavaScript).
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While refresh and AJAX are the standard answers now, there are other
possibilities that we can regard as browser-specific that remain use-
ful in rare situations <URL:
http://web.archive.org/web/20001015213951/http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-02-2000/swol-02-regex_2.html >.

Good luck with your project.  Using the Web to monitor plant operations
can be a real winner.



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