From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2004-09-17T00:03:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: web-based progress bar

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:38:53 +0900, Lennon Day-Reynolds
<rcoder@gmail.com> wrote:

> And they've got a great tutorial on using iframe elements to do
> dynamic updates in browser-based interfaces:
> http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/iframe.html

Minus the odd typo, it was just what I needed.  Thanks to all for the pointers.

Here's what I came up with:
Client: http://www.codepaste.org/view/paste/140
Server: http://www.codepaste.org/view/paste/139
sample server output: http://www.codepaste.org/view/paste/141

I love the fact that this setup means I can run _any_ shell routine,
and display the output on a web page, but I'm wondering if there's a
cleaner way to do the server side of it.

The dance I'm doing with STDOUT and $stdout is a bit ugly, but I'm not
sure what the alternatives are.  I want the display to be as close to
'real time' as possible.  I'm not sure I'm achieving that now, but
it's certainly not for lack of trying ;)

-- 
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)