Do you have mod_deflate active in your output chain? mod_deflate slurps up all its input and only prints when its buffer gets full.
On Thursday 01 September 2005 07:52 am, pradeep kumar wrote: > Hi, > > I have a perl script which uses $| to set autoflush on. Basically, it > flushes after every print. This script is working fine from the command > line when run using standalone perl interpreter. But when the same script > is accessed via mod_perl/apache setup, mod_perl is not flushing after every > print, instead buffering and printing all output at one shot. > Any idea why $| is not working with mod_perl. > > Here is my sample script: > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > use CGI qw/:standard/; > use strict; > select(STDOUT); > $| = 1; > print STDOUT "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print STDOUT <<END; <html> > <head> </head> <body> END print STDOUT 'hello'; print STDOUT '<br>'; > sleep(2); print STDOUT 'World'; print STDOUT '<br>'; sleep(2); print STDOUT > 'Testing'; print STDOUT "</body></html>"; > > > Thanks in advance, > Pradeep