I thought that I could accomplish this with the following code, but it still waits till the script is complete to display the web page. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard/;

$| = 1; #I was hoping that this would make it that stuff
        #stuff was sent to the browser each time rather than
        #waiting till the end of the script


###################    MAIN   ##########

my $cgi = CGI->new();
print $cgi->header() . "\n";

html_1();

some_long_process();

html_2();

############################################


sub html_1 {
  print "\n";
  print "your stuff is being processed<br>\n";
}

sub html_2{
  print "\n";
  print "your process is done<br>\n";
  
}

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Any help is much appreciated!
thanks,
perljunkymunky

In reply to Sending html content to the browser as the script runs by perljunkymunky

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