SPUG: cgi help

[Ryan Ames]

 thanks for the help...flushing the buffer accomplished what I needed...

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Ebert
To: Ryan Ames
Cc: 'spug-list at pm.org'
Sent: 4/4/2001 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: SPUG: cgi help


I don't know if this would work ... but it might be worth a try.

Turn buffering off with 

$| = 1;

Then print something to the browser

print CGI::header;
print "Processing ...";

so the browser gets something.

Then do the query and print the results when the query is done.

Dan.
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On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Ryan Ames wrote:

> hello all,
> 	I am writing a cgi script that is using oraperl to query the
> database and post the results.  My queries are somewhat on the hefty
side
> and my browser keeps timing out.  Is there any way that I can keep
this from
> happening?  thanks....
> 
> 
> 
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> Ryan Ames
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