Hi,

I'm working on a project that involves the company I work for and
another company that we have been working with. Part of the project
involves passing an XML file between two servers when a user clicks a
button within a CMS.

I'm told, by the other company, that the time taken to process the XML
at their end can be 2-3 minutes. Now obviously this is an issue as it
would cause both our server and the user's browser to timeout before the
operation is finished.

So, my question is, how can I ensure that the server doesn't timeout
whilst waiting for the remote server to respond, and how do I ensure
that the user's browser also does not timeout?

I presume that the secret to stopping the browser from timing out is to
send it some sort of progress report and have it update the display
every /x/ seconds - however I am not at all sure how to achieve this.

Thanks in advance,