Thanks, and I did see that post. Honestly, I **DON'T** want to get intimate with the Token, and in fact, I do use the form tag.
All I want is to get a pleaseWait page to work, but I keep losing the token in the Meta refresh.
The best I can do is to show a pleaseWait page with an action that checks the token (works here), and then call another action that takes a while with the meta tag. Trouble is, I check the token in the downstream action too and it always fails. The token in the request is null, but the one in the session is fine . So, I figured I ought to pass the token by doing a bit of URL rewriting in the META tag, but this isn't very elegant IMHO.
Open to other suggestions ... tried the longWaitRequestProcessor, but it uses the same META refresh approach. There is the
servlet approach, but this requires hard-coding of html and more lower-level coding that at the level of actions. Not against it, but looking for something reproducible, other than moving to Struts2 or other framework. LongWaitRequestProcessor was a good option.
_R