That doesn't work for us. It seems that the browser also maintains a buffer, because if I loop the please wait message 10000 times, it does show up immediately. I suspect possibly there's some massaging we can do to the header?
Thanks, Fran -----Original Message----- From: Issac Goldstand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 2:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: partial page display local $|=1; ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:11 PM Subject: partial page display > > I would like to have some of the page display while the rest of the data for > the page is still being retrieved (i.e. a "Please wait, this operation takes > several seconds..." kind of message). I thought (perhaps naively) that a > print "Please wait.....\n"; at the beginning of my handler would accomplish > this, but mod_perl seems to cache all output until the entire handler has > returned. Is this possible without the use of a module like CGI::Push? > Perhaps I need to modify the header? > > Thanks, > Fran >
