Displaying a "Processing your request" page

I am using jsp's and servlets along with interaction with a COBOL program
for a web page.  The page is displayed with search parameter fields using a
jsp.  The controlling servlet then receives the request and calls the COBOL
program to process the request.  The servlet then redirects the response to
the jsp to display the results.

What I am trying to accomplish is to have the search request sent, another
page displayed stating "Processing the request", and, when the results are
found, displaying the results.  I tried to do a redirect in the beginning of
the servlet with a Boolean flag assed to the sessions object with coding in
the jsp to display the "Processing" page, then do the processing and do
another redirect with the data.  This is not working.  The first redirect is
not displayed.

Does anyone have any ideas or recommendations on how to complete this task?

Thanks

Mike

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Mike Silvers
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