window.opener

Try window.opener.location.reload();
(http://p2p.wrox.com/archive/javascript_objects/2002-12/1.asp)

You just need to write some javascript into the body tag of the pop-up page after the submit has been processed, like this:

If Then
Response.Write “”
Response.Write “”
Response.Write “”
Else
….
(http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5956)

on progress

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
– George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)

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