The first Perl script in my original post had 'text/plain'; that's the one that I'm talking about.
And as blahblah correctly points out lower down, this appears to have something to do with CGI, because if I remove that dependency as follows:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$|=1;
{
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print "Autoflush is currently " . ($|?"on":"off") . ".\n";
for ( 1..5 ) {
print "Value is $_.\n";
sleep 1;
}
print "Autoflush is currently " . ($|?"on":"off") . ".\n";
}
The script works properly. So CGI is ignoring $| and doing its own caching. Now I know.
Alex / talexb / Toronto
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