I'm not quite sure what you mean by "IE5.5 isn't." What is it not doing? I'm assuming you mean it just hangs on the CGI page. If you're worried about buffering try telnetting to your web server by hand and request the CGI script. This would let you see what the browser sees. 
$ telnet www.example.com 80
GET /cgi-bin/script.pl HTTP/1.0

[download]
(Hit return twice after the 2nd line.) I suspect that the redirect line is coming promptly, but since your script is still "pausing", the browser is waiting for it to complete any data the server/script is going to send with that request. Try either closing STDOUT or fork your script, with the child performing the additional processing and the parent cleaning up and exiting. This should allow the HTTP transaction to complete and the browser to follow through with the redirect request.

In reply to Re: CGI.pm Flushing and Internet Explorer 5.5 by Fastolfe
in thread CGI.pm Flushing and Internet Explorer 5.5 by Anonymous Monk

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