Flushing servers buffer

[Andyza]

In the following code when i = 500 the buffer on the server is flushed
to the client. However, because the content that is sent to the browser
contains an html table Internet Explorer does not display the table
until it receives the closing </table> tag. The question is, am I
correct in saying that the buffer on the server is CLEARED when i =
500? It will be empty for a split second until the loop resumes again.
Am I correct?

Dim i
i = 1
Response.Write("<table>")
For i = 1 to 1000
Response.Write("<tr><td>" & i & "</td></tr>")
i = i + 1
If i = 500 Then
Response.Flush()
End If
Loop
Response.Write("</table>")

Is this a good way to clear the buffer if I'm processing a very large
amount of data?

 

[CJM]

In the following code when i = 500 the buffer on the server is flushed
to the client. However, because the content that is sent to the browser
contains an html table Internet Explorer does not display the table
until it receives the closing </table> tag. The question is, am I
correct in saying that the buffer on the server is CLEARED when i =
500? It will be empty for a split second until the loop resumes again.
Am I correct?

See:
http://www.intellidimension.com/def...dfgateway/reference/script/response_flush.rsp

It suggests that a Flush() call clears the buffer...

CJM

 

[Andyza]

The Flush() method requires Response.Buffer to be set to False.
When Response.Buffer = False any output gets sent back to the client as
the server completes it's processing (as opposed to being cached on the
server until all the processing is complete), so Response.Flush isn't
required.

Guess I should have read this first:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...html/a07ec445-9240-4f23-8fe9-1f9548d3f8b0.asp

 

[Andyza]

The Flush() method requires Response.Buffer to be set to False.

Ok, ok, I should have read what I posted... The Flush() method requires
Response.Buffer to be set to TRUE.
Then when the Flush() method is called the output gets sent back to the
client.

Guess I should have read this first:

<snip>

Guess I should have checked the url too! The correct one is:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/iissdk/html/afd29638-af17-4c29-b285-95e01af7e6cb.asp