Greetings fellow monksters! I am trying to write a progress bar of sorts just to let the user know something is happening. I have the the following code that works fine AS LONG AS THIS SCRIPT IS CALLED DIRECTLY from the browser. Meaning if I type in the URL then the script will run and a "." will show up every second.

BUT, if I make this script the <form action=progress.cgi method=post> from another script then when there will be a 10 second pause and the ".........." string is written all at once!

What gives? Im running Apache 1.3.14 so nph is no longer and issue .. yes? Perl: 5.005_03 built for sun4-solaris

Thanks! 

#
# progress.cgi
#
$|=1;
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

for ($i=1;$i<=10;$i++) {
   print ".";
   select(undef,undef,undef,1);
}

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