How to display HTML to the browser incrementally over a long period of time?

Question

Do I need to pass back any HTTP headers to tell the browser that my server won\'t be immediately closing the connection and to display as the HTML is received? Is there anyt

Answer 1

The client will close the connection when it does not receive any data for a certain time. This timeout cannot be influenced by HTTP headers. It is client-specific and usually set to 120 seconds IIRC.

So all you have to do is send small amounts of data regularly to avoid hitting the timeout.