How can I continuously inform the user of progress from a Perl CGI script?

Question

I have this Perl script sitting in the cgi-bin folder of my Apache server:

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;

$| = 1;

print \"Content-type: text/ht         


        

Answer 1

Does it do what you expect when you set the content-type to text/plain? Perhaps the HTML parsing in your browser is causing the delay in the output, since you're not actually outputting valid HTML? (no or tags)