OK, Apache 2.2 server, either Mozilla or IE browser, and as far as the html formatting that goes on, the page in question will print a very simple header, then its basically this loop, from the OP: 
$| = 1;
open(JAVA, "java_command_stuff |") or die ...;
while(<JAVA>){
   my $line = $_;
   print "$line<br>\n";
}
close JAVA;

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After which I close out the html tags and the script ends.

I tried switching the header to text/plain but still don't get any output until task is complete.

Just an FYI, most all of the tests this runs, will complete in just a matter of seconds. There is just one pesky test case here that is running for so long, but I would like to be able to handle more 'long duration' cases in the future so I'm trying to work this out now...

thanks

In reply to Re^6: Nonblocking commands in Windows by technojosh
in thread Nonblocking commands in Windows by technojosh

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