Tim Fletcher wrote: > hi all, > > i have a perl script(html page) that takes a good 10 mins to run. i would like to be >able to show the user that the script is still > running by regularly printing a little text to the page. but it seems that the page >isn't sent to the browser till the whole script > has been processed! in VBscript ASP (the language the script was first written in) i >had a property that i could change; > Response.Buffer = False. > is there something similar in perl? > > Thanks all for your time & have a nice day
Easiest thing to do would be to write the HTML to a file and send a meta refresh page back to the browser that points to the file and periodically refreshes from the file (which you are changing). -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert ICQ=162126130 (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (Free site for Perl) -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
