Hello Monks,

Could anyone point me in the right direction to making a Perl script output as it runs in a browser? Below is a simple example of the difference between running the script via the CLI and the browser. On the CLI the script outputs each line as it finishes. However, via the browser the whole script needs to be execute before the whole results gets printed to screen.


#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
my @arr = (1..100000);

foreach my $i(@arr){print "$i\n<br />"}

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Are there any "tricks" to make the page load, say line by line as the script runs via the browser?

In reply to Output to Browser as script executes? by packetstormer

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