reloading issue

I do have the following code in the header jsp. The idea is that I want to collect the visitor time using javascript and
set it into session so the cotroller part of the application can call an appropriate method to use this.
But the fact is that when I monitor the execution in the console window, I see it getting executed many times and
it wouldn't stop executing. It keep submitting the form again and again and wouldn't stop.
Anybody can think of some other way to make it work?

<head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function fnSubmit() {
window.document.form1.submit();
return;
}
</SCRIPT>
</head>

<body onloa="return fnSubmit()">
<form name="form1">
<script language="JavaScript">

</script>
<noscript><input type="hidden"
name="VisitorTime" value="Browser not JavaScript enabled">
</noscript>

</form>
<%
String VisitorTime = request.getParameter("VisitorTime");

System.out.println("####################################");
System.out.println("### Visitor Time is " + VisitorTime + "###");
System.out.println("####################################");
%>

</body>

Thanks in advance.
[ December 10, 2007: Message edited by: Alex George ]

Because you keep loading the same page. Onload is being fired everytime since that is what it does. You would need to make the page smart [don't output code] or have the page submit to a different location.

Eric

How can I make it smart. I output the code just to see if the value is getting set in the session.
I highly appreciate your help.

Have your server output the code when you get the value back you do not display it again.

You add a cookie that determines if you need to post back [if cookies are disabled the user will be stuck in a loop.]

You post the page to another page where the code does not exist.

You just wait to the user posts back the page to see the value.

Eric

header is getting inserted in all the pages. So I cannot really submit this anywhere.

Than you need to say hey I go this already, do not display it.

Eric

Originally posted by Alex George:
The idea is that I want to collect the visitor time using javascript and
set it into session so the cotroller part of the application can call an appropriate method to use this.

Maybe I am missing something, but wouldn't it be easier to just collect the visitor time directly in that JSP, rather than generating HTML that sends a second request?

What Mr.Eric Pascarello said worked for me.
But how can I get the visitor time in the jsp without using javascript?