Hi,

My login to the site is being processed using ajax, which does a redirect to the members page upon succesfull loggin in.

The login feature however can in fact take a while because we need to initialise quite some data when a user logs in (his details, but also his privileges are loaded, his personal menu based on these privileges are being loaded, we are loading shopping cart info, we are initialising personalisation settings, and a whole lot more.

It sounds like a big thing, but it isn't, and once logged in, the application is going great.  the only thing is that the login proceure can take 3 - 4 seconds, and I would like to be able to show the client the progress of the serverside script:

"Searching your account..."
"Validating your privileges"
"Initialising your personal menu"

blablabla...

To do this, I might just call an ajax call that starts the login procedure, and then issue another ajax call every 1 second or so to update the status based on some session variables I set in the login procedure and that I can serve to the client when th next ajax calls come in, but I would love for this to work a little nicer as in just needing to initialise ONE ajax call which can send back statusupdates from the server...

Any idea how I might be able to achieve this?

Thanks so much!
David.