Re: CGI progress indicator

this seems to work for me (in mozilla 0.9.4/linux and IE5.5/win2k):

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard /;
$| = 1;

print header();
print<<ENDHTML;
<html><head><title>progress test</title></head>
<body>
ENDHTML
foreach my $i (1..10) {
    print $i, "<br />\n";
    sleep 3;
}
print "</body></html>";
exit 0;
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if you don't include the starting html tags, IE refuses to show anything until it's all done loading. maybe that's your problem?

anders pearson

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Re: Re: CGI progress indicator by JungleBoy (Scribe) on Oct 02, 2001 at 01:23 UTC
Doh! I see my problem. The page is enclosed in a table, and it won't draw the table until the table is complete. Guess I have to do a little bit of redesigning. Thanks for the help.	[reply]
Re: Re: CGI progress indicator by Anonymous Monk on Nov 12, 2002 at 20:44 UTC
this works fine in mozilla, but has anyone got it working in ie6? i have the caching problem so everything is still displayed when execution is comlete. it's so anoying!	[reply]