Animated GIF fails to 'animate' after form submit

[Al Fraser]

Need a little help:

I redirect to a 'processing' ASP page. The content on this page is
something like 'please wait' with a little animated GIF to give the
impression that something is happening, whilst the server if off doing
its bit. The problem is that when I redirect to this page, it
immediately submits the form on the body onload event (which I want it
to do). The animated GIF on this page never actually animates. It
seems to stay on the first frame. The page has submitted but stays
there (still no animation) whilst server stuff is happening then
redirects to the next page. How can I get the animated GIF to work ??
I cannot use framesets. Does anyone have any ideas ??

Cheers

AL

 

[Alan Edwards]

See if this helps:
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers.htm#ani_gif
Why don't my animated gifs animate?

Take note of the mention of firewalls like @Guard as others like Zone
Alarm Pro and NIS may also have a disable option.

....Alan