Ok, i think I know what the problem is now.
I tested my code (guess i was too lazy before).

The problem seems to be the size of the resulting display data. 1 to 5 just wan't enough. I changed the code to iterate from 1 to 500000 and removed the sleep (it works with the sleep, but for me 66 lines had to be printed before anything would display).

My guess is that the browser also has a buffer. The amount of data sent must first fill this buffer before the browser will attempt to display the data it has recieved.

I also discovered when testing my suggestion that on the command line the script buffers the results until it is complete (on the 1-5 iteration). Adding the $| = 1; you had in the code originally helped this. It doesn't seem to make a difference with the large incrementation set.

I know it's not line by line output, but with straight cgi it's probably the best that can be had. Hope it helps.

3 buffers: (+ how to defeat)

P.S.- as i finish this the test script is on "Line 854"

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: (OT?) Output buffering w/Apache by bastard
in thread (OT?) Output buffering w/Apache by voyager

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