No, you need to keep it inside with-conditional-get-response so that
you send properly formatted HTTP messages.
You'll need to look at the individual browsers that you are targeting
and see how they display HTML. There have been non-standard ways to
perform incremental display (eg netscape). By now, some of the newest
versions of html/xhtml may provide such capabilities in a standard fashion.
At 17:58 +0100 6/18/03, David Johnson-Davies wrote:
>Can anyone help with this query? I'm trying to do a time-consuming task
>after serving a page, and tried:
>
>(defmethod write-test-page ((url url:http-url) stream)
> (with-conditional-get-response (stream :html)
> (with-html-document (:stream stream)
> (with-standard-document-body (:stream stream)
> (write-string "Test page" stream))))
> (time-consuming-task))
>
>(export-url #u"/test.html"
> :computed
> :response-function #'write-test-page)
>
>However, the user's browser seems to wait until (time-consuming-task) is
>completed before receiving the page. I thought putting it outside the
>(with-conditional-get-response ...) procedure would ensure that the page
>gets served first.
>
>Have I misunderstood something, and is there a solution to this?
>
>Thanks,
>David Johnson-Davies
>
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