[Boston.pm] Hi all - a meta refresh question

[Ranga Nathan]

Hi all:
After a long gap I am rejoining this group. Glad to be back in the fold 'logically'. This is because I moved to Orange county, CA.

I have a small CGI problem that someone else would have solved, perhaps easily! I want to return a progress message ('please wait..') before returning the actual output, which could take a few seconds. How would I do that?  When I tried the following,  the progress message stays on the page instead of being overwritten.

$|++;
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n",<<EOT;

Working ... Please wait ...

EOT

process_query() # this returns the actual page...starting with the HTTP header

Unfortunately the first line stays on the page followed by subsequent output.

I also tried a script writing HTML with meta refresh and directing to another URL. In this case the browser (I.E) kept re-fetching the first script!

Suggestions welcome.