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Originally Posted by benbailey
I imagine AJAX would come into this but then again these pages have been around since before the popular use of AJAX.
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The fundamental technology behind AJAX, XMLHttpRequest, is fairly old and has been in use for a long time. The hype surrounding AJAX in the past 2 years or so has simply brought it to light in a more predominant way.
One possible solution could be to send the user to a 'Processing Order' holding page while using an XHR request in the background checking for the status of the order on the server. When it retrieves a completed or success status you could then forward the user to the confirmation page. Similarly you would forward the user on to an error page if the transaction failed.
I'm not too sure how viable the above method is, but it's the first thing that came to mind.
- Mike