AJAX get data from large HTML page as the large HTML page loads

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Published on 2010-06-03T12:49:35Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 12:54 UTC
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Not entirely sure whether this has a name but basically I have a large HTML page that is generated from results in a db.

So viewing the HTML page (which is a report) in a browser directly does not display all contents immediately but displays what it has and additional HTML is added as the results from the DB are retrieved...

Is there a way I can make an AJAX request to this HTML page and as opposed to waiting until the whole page (report) is ready, I can start processing the response as the HTML report is loaded? Or is there another way of doing it?

Atm I make my AJAX response it just sits there for a minute or two until the HTML page is complete...

If context is of any use: The HTML report is generated by a Java servlet and the page making the AJAX call is a JSP page. Unfortunately I can't very easily break the report up because it is generated by BIRT (Eclipse reporting extension).

Thanks in advance.

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