Are there progress update events in jQuery ajax?

Question

i have long running task that gets called using jquery ajax. i am using the block ui plugin to show \"loading\". is there anyway i can send progress messages back to the

Answer 1

I only recently became aware of a project that does ajax "push". You might want to check it out:

http://www.ape-project.org/

As far as I know there are a few other projects out there doing similar things, this is the truest to: "send progress messages back to the client" where the other solution requires a request to poll for progress (still a very legitimate and good solution).