Yes, as ikegami says, what you need (if you're not going the AJAX route) is an NPH script (stands for "No Parse Head"). I took a look at the documentation pointed to in the link above (to the NPH scripts section of the CGI.pm docs), and one of the things it doesn't mention is how and NPH script solves your problem. Most web servers will normally gather all the output together, attach headers, and then send the headers and contents to the client. You don't see anything until all the data is produced by the CGI. With NPH, the web server doesn't take on that responsibility, and in that situation it serves up data as it gets it from the CGI. If your web page has content which can be displayed as-you-go, it does.

One thing to not miss in the docs. On some web servers, the script has to start with the string "nph-". It's most awkward, but on those servers there is no way around it.

In reply to Re: Sending html content to the browser as the script runs by rodion
in thread Sending html content to the browser as the script runs by perljunkymunky

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