What you could do is use a bit of javascript magic with the assistance of
the XMLHTTP object. You can write out a page that tells the user not to
close the window (which is a suboptimal design, I have to tell you - any
design that requires you to trust a user not to do something stupid should
be reconsidered) and then run a javascript that issues an asynchronous post
to the 5-minute asp script on your server. You can then subscribe a function
call to the onLoad event for the XMLHTTP object so that, once your script
has run and your page returns results, you can react by closing the window,
writing a different message to the user, or whatever you want to do.
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"Mike H" <mh****@buehner-fry.com> wrote in message
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Maybe I should have been more precise.
Page1.asp does a window.open in client side vbscript. It then does a post
to page2.asp Page2.asp may take 5 minutes to process and when it is complete I want to
close the window that was opened by Page1. The idea is to put a message on the screen so
the user doesn't close Page2.asp while it is still processing. Any ideas?
