Hi folks. I have a little bit of code that takes in a couple of arguments and hooks up to a database using DBI. I want it to display back to a web page using CGI methods. It works great on the command line. If I copy the data back into an HTML page the browser looks exactly like I want it to. However.... when I try to pull it up directly from the browser the browser never gets beyond writing the header information. So my question is how can I make the browser wait until the whole HTML is there before trying to display it.

Here's the pertinent parts of my code.

#!/usr/bin/perl

#use strict;
use CGI;
use DBI;
use HTML::Template;

$| = 1;

open (STDERR,">/apps2/apache/cgi-bin/errorLog.txt");

my $q = CGI->new;
my $sth;
my $env;
my $database;
my $host;
my $port;
my $user;
my $pw;

print $q->header(-nph=>1);
my $style = get_style();
print $q->start_html(
-title => "XREF",
-style => {-code => $style},
);

my $fields = "*";

my $symbol_in = $q->param('symbol');
my $site = $q->param('site');
print $q->h1 ("ACTIV INSTRUMENT TABLE DATA");
my $fields = "*";
#my @fields_in = $q->param('fields');
chomp $symbol_in;
chomp $site;

chomp $symbol_in;
chomp $site;
$symbol_in =~ s/\s//;
foreach (@fields_in){
$_ =~  s/\s//;
#if ($_ eq $type){
        #next;
#}else{
        #$fields = join(',',$fields,split);
#}
        $fields = join(',',$fields,split);
}

my $symbol = join('\',\'',split(/,/,$symbol_in));
&getConfig;
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:sid=$database;host=$host", $user, $
+pw) or die "Can't connect to Oracle database: $DBI::errstr\n";
my $sql = qq{ SELECT $fields FROM t_activ_instrument where fps_subject
+ = '$symbol' };
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute();

my $columns = join("<th>", @{ $sth->{NAME} });
my @row;
while(@row = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
print $q->table({-scope=>"col", -border=>2, -cellpadding => 5},
$q->th("$columns"),
            $q->Tr($q->td( join("<td>", @row), "\n")),
);
};
$sth->finish;
$dbh->disconnect;
print $q->end_html;
print "\r\n";

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Like I said outside the browser looks great. Inside the browser all I get is this (consolidated the style section): 
<!DOCTYPE html
    PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U
+S">
<head>
<title>XREF</title>
<style type="text/css">
<style>
.
.
.
</style>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
+" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>ACTIV INSTRUMENT TABLE DATA</h1>

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In reply to DBI output into browser using CGI by billycote

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