I usually turn off buffering right after my use CGI; statement: 
use CGI;
$| = 1;
...

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This will turn off output buffering, which sometimes causes the output of CGI scripts to be incomplete on FreeBSD boxes, especially when running outside processes; at least, that was my experience.

If lynx is timing out, as fglock mentioned, you could also take a look at LWP::UserAgent, here's a snippet: 

use LWP::UserAgent;
$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;

# Create a request
my $req = new HTTP::Request GET => "http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/$cat
+egories[$i]";

# Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
my $res = $ua->request($req);

# Check the outcome of the response
if ($res->is_success) {
  print $res->content;
} else {
  print "Bad luck this time\n";
}

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Turning off buffering will also allow you to see your script errors in the browser. I find this handy when I need to write a short script, such as you have here, and I need to see the output in the browser whether it completes or not.

--
.dave.

In reply to Re: not in my browser (truncated output) by hiseldl
in thread not in my browser (truncated output) by mkahn

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