Hello all

I used the code below to turn off the buffering but it doesn't work. When I call the code from the browser it supposed to show START at first and then wait for 5 seconds and then show END. But the browser doesn't display anything for 5 seconds and then show START and END at the same time. When I tested the code on a Windows based system it works great but it works as I said on Apache server. Also the code works great at the command line. Does any body knows what the problem is?

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
$| = 1;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><head></head><body>";
print "START\n";
sleep 5;
print "End\n";
print "</body></html>\n";

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My Perl version is: 5.8.0
My Apache version is: 1.3.37 (Unix)

Thank you all.

In reply to Turning off buffering ($|=1) doesn't work on Apache server by shahyar7

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