what kind of trick is that?

[Noam Rathaus]

Hi Hetz,

It is probably using an execution in the background (server side) and a
javascript (client side) to show the progress in the foreground.

I noticed that the webmin package has an xmlrpc.cgi file and the
XMLHTTPRequest being referenced, these are used (the second for sure) to do
the background processing.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Anyone who've installed and used webmin, probably saw this part:
> you're missing a part (like SSL?) and webmin compiles it for you.
>
> What I would like to know is how they did the trick that the page is
> constantly updating while downloading/compiling/iinstalling, all the
> text appears as it's progress..
>
> I want to write a simple shell script that uses lftp. lftp has this
> neat feature that while it downloads, it shows a nice progress bar,
> and I want to create a simple script that will show that progress bar
> with lftp - on a page without refreshing it.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Hetz
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