I tried the example from Cpan, but got a "Can't locate CGI/ProgressBar.pm in @INC ..." message, so have asked the web hosts to install that module.

The current shebang line,etc is

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use CGI qw/:standard/;
use DBI;
use Net::SMTP;
#use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);    #comment this out when in produ
+ction

BEGIN {
     use CGI::Carp qw(carpout);
     
     open(LOG, ">>/home/username/cgi-bin/process-log") or
       die("Unable to open process-log: $!\n");
     carpout(LOG);
   }

# resource limits
$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1;  # no uploads
$CGI::POST_MAX = 1024 * 10;  # max 10K posts
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Looking at the example on Cpan, would the insertion of the following

use lib '..';

use CGI::ProgressBar qw/:standard/;
$| = 1; # Do not buffer output
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have any other effect on the displaying of error messages (currently to browser), or other o/p to the browser (HTML code,etc) ?

Peter

I don't think you need the use lib '..' bit. My gut feeling is that turning off buffering is not likely going to affect the printing of the error messages (well, maybe performance wise). But you will need to test it of course.

I don't think you need the use lib '..' bit. My gut feeling is that turning off buffering is not likely going to affect the printing of the error messages (well, maybe performance wise). But you will need to test it of course.

Okay, thanks, I'll test it with and with the use lib '..' bit.

Peter