Telling a browser to keep a connection alive

[Marc Lijour]

On Monday 02 January 2006 01:41, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>    Does anyone know of a way to tell a web browser to not kill a
> connection (to a cgi script) that takes a certain period of time to
> respond?
>
>    The reason I ask is that my perl program tries to spit out data to
> the browser every 30 seconds during a big job to keep the connection
> alive (I turn off buffering) but sometimes an external program I call
> holds things up for too long and the connection dies anyway.
>
>    I know that I can increase the time-out on the webserver but from
> what I can tell the browser generally ends things.
>
>    I'm worried that this option won't exist in browsers for valid
> security reasons...
>
>    Thanks in advance!
>
> Madison

Pull from the browser?

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XML_in_Mozilla#DOM_Load_and_Save_Methods
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