Hi
I’m going to create a webpage that will perform various lengthy operations. For example a user will select hundreds of files which this system will copy from one server to another – a operation that could take 30-60 minutes. Each thing happening (for example one file copied) shall be shown in a list/table holding all recent incidents (a log window).
I’m a little unsure how to design this, since I guess I’m going to have problems with browser timeout and such.
Should the page itself launch a non-visual background process on the server, and the calling page use ajax to display the log this process creates?
Or should the calling page include a popup/frame/iframe or similar to show a page which does the operation and echoing out each incident (is it possible for this to never timeout?)?
Thank you for any advice.
Lubox