I have a problem with my CGI file that uses sleep(). I want to print one line at a time with 3 second intervals cause it's a poem. Problem is, it waits until half of the script is done before ANYTHING is printed, then it prints line by line every 3 seconds. Why does it wait for half of them to load rather than print out line by line from the beginning?

I have like 30 lines and it takes 40+seconds to load the first half, then it prints right. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;


$|=1;

use CGI qw/:standard/;


print header;

print "line one<br>\n";
sleep(3);
print "line two<br>\n";
sleep(3);
print "line three<br>\n";
sleep(3);
print "line four\n";
print "<br>\n";
sleep(3);

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