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...nning process to build a directory tree in a database from a very large and deep folder structure. I am using sessions for security, but the process takes so long that it never finishes. Having tried and failed to override the session time-out, I am trying to work around the problem by having a PeriodicUpdater tickle the session by loading a page every minute. But I am also using Updater to submit the admin form. I call the PeriodicUpdater first, then the Updater to submit the form. Both fire, and the PeriodicUpdater completes its first pass and waits. Then it fires again, and never finishes. I can...

Well, I''ve been burning the midnight oil trying to figure out how to issue the stop() command to a PeriodicUpdater. I''ve come up with a solution that uses setTimeouts to call the stop function. I think my solution is very kludgey... especially since I''m new to Javascript + Prototype. Can anyone let me know if the below code is at all proper? :) --------- Summary: A PeriodicUpdater calls a...

...blem of Javascript and periodic updater. I''m trying to do a chat application and it''s an issue of holding on the the div id. I have no problems when the user clicks on a submit button to sends a message to the presence server. On the other side of it though, I''m using periodicupdater to poll the server for the messages to act as the listener, the problem is that bec I can''t hold on to the div id, the messages being retrieved from the presence server are being broadcasted to all of the divs. I know that the only way to capture the div id is if an event was trigg...