There are various techniques for keeping a connection to the server open and getting interim updates from that connection, which take the collective term "comet," which is described here . Long-polling, hidden iframes with chunked blocks, XHR on some browsers, etc. One or more of those may be useful to you. Note that different techniques work with different browsers, and each has upsides and downsides.
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