Return status on a page that will disappear

[Guest]

I am trying to do something fairly simple. A user loads that is accessing a
database. This page generates a report. Now the report can take a while to
run (several minutes), so I would like to reply with something on the web
page that says the request is being processed, and then have that message go
away when the request is actually finished and the real data is returned.

What is the easiest way to do this? I am passing a number of fields into
this page via a form and/or a querystring. Also, this page can be accessed
in several different ways, so I would like to avoid loading a separate page
and then loading the report page.

Thanks

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

This is simplest solution I've seen for this predicament:
http://www.aspnetpro.com/NewsletterArticle/2003/08/asp200308bm_l/asp200308bm_l.asp

 

[Guest]

Thank you, that was exactly what I ws looking for.