Re: form response

i wouldnt know how to do a gauge like that but dslreports.com has one for
checking if dsl is avalible in your area.

tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Carreno" <thomascarreno(at)worldspy.net>
To: "Michael T. Patterson" <mikep(at)va-hi.com>; <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 7:14 AM
Subject: RE: form response


> I have a website that uses a lot of tell a friend forms on it that access
a
> CGI script. Even when things are not that busy it sometimes takes quite a
> few seconds to submit that form and go to the exit page.
>
> The only thing I do is write 'Press only once, may take a few seconds' to
> encourage people to wait. But I am pretty sure people click on that submit
> button quite a few times.
>
> The one thing that I am hoping is that when I eventually move to a
dedicated
> server, that the response time will be much faster.
>
> But I admit, that I too on some other websites have repeatedly hit the
> submit button out of simple frustration because things were moving so
> slowly.
>
> What would be cool is if there could be a little gas gauge meter that
would
> show that the form is processing. Then people would at least know what the
> hell is going on at the other end.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of Michael T. Patterson
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 8:54 AM
> To: hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
> Subject: form response
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> Here's an html / javascript / php question for you.
>
> A visitor to your web site fills out a form and presses submit.  You've
> validated the form fields with JavaScript, and you've directed the
> form's "action" attribute to a PHP script which drops the visitor's
> information into a database, sends off an email or two, and then
> generates HTML that thanks your visitor for completing the form.  But
> the visitor does not see the response page right away; before the
> visitor sees the "thank you" response, the server has to process the
> results and send the new page back.  So the visitor, thinking nothing is
> happening with the page, presses submit again.  And again, and again....
>
> I see this infrequently and suspect the problem depends on server load
> and net traffic that slows the response time.  How do you all deal with
> this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
>

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