I was experimenting with CGI::Push and came up with a really CUFP. It's tiny, but oh-so-neat and I'm not sure why I haven't stumbled upon this before on the web.

It updates the browser every second. It's too bad IE doesn't conform to standards, I think this (server push) could've led to some neat web services.

You will most likely need to edit it to point to your access_log.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use CGI::Push    qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp    qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI::Carp    qw(warningsToBrowser);

do_push(
    -type        => "text/plain",
    -nph        => 0,
    -delay        => 1,
    -next_page    => sub { 
        return    `uptime`, "\n",
            `tail /var/www/logs/access_log`, "\n", 
            `ps auxw`; 
    },
);

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