browser -> script1.cgi -> progress.cgi and back right? Or did I read that wrong?

script1 will wait for progress.cgi to complete before responding back to the browser? Is script1 set to $|=1 so it passes each response to the browser unbuffered also? And is it looping and printing rec'd progress.cgi output each time it receives it? Might be easiest to redesign to do it directly from the script called by the browser (modularize it?).

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