OK. merlyn's article deals with how to save the information between invocations to a CGI (using a persistent cache and session key to get the data back). You want to do something different. You want real timeish results. That's different.

You do not need to put the data in the cache; in fact, it is what is storing or buffering the output. You need to set $| to 1 and send the data directly to the user. One big issue, though, is that browsers sometimes "timeout": as noted above if they don't see data in n seconds, they disconnect. I have solved this in the past using timeouts. For now, I'd just write the data directly to the browser with $|=1 and without the cache, and see what happens.

You could use a solution like merlyn's by extending the key to be $session-$line and then retreiving each line individually.

In reply to Re^3: Long Process Waits Until End to Display Results by traveler
in thread Long Process Waits Until End to Display Results by C_T

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