Look into nph scripts. (non-parsed header) Basically you get to bypass the webserver (and it's output buffering) and talk directly to the browser via the cgi. The also permits real-time display output to be sent to the browser. We have used it for search engine indexing of sites before (indexes have taken as long as 10 minutes.)

I'm not totally sure of the details, but as long as you periodically return data the connection should be held open. IIRC you need a nph script to do this. Try returning a "." every so often. (This also lets the user know something is happening).

Look in the CGI.pm docs for the section titled "USING NPH SCRIPTS"
http://search.cpan.org/doc/LDS/CGI.pm-2.68/CGI.pm

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