Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 09/07/05 01:44

Andrew Gabriel wrote:

> I have a recollection from some work I did several years back that
> there's a way to ask a browser to progressively display text as it
> is received, which is intended to be used when the text on a page
> is being generated slowly, and you don't want the browser to wait
> until it has it all before displaying any of it. I've been crawling
> around the web looking at resources about HTTP headers and I can't
> now find any reference to this. Can anyone remind me what the HTTP
> header is, or other mechanism if it's not that?

That should be the default behaviour of any decent browser. What you could
do is to make sure that the document is actually *sent* progressively - no
output buffering of any kind, perhaps a stdout.flush() or whatever is the
equivalent in your environment.

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Benjamin Niemann
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