some interesting info on the meta tag and the http-equiv attribute http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/HTML/Head/Meta/HTTP.html http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/metatags.detail.html http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/html/draft-musella-html-metatag-01.txt
from the above....note the word 'can'. In other sources the word can is replaced with 'may'. "HTTP servers can read the contents of the document head to generate response headers corresponding to any elements defining a value for the attribute HTTP-EQUIV." ...a paraphrased response to the JS-Jive list... Doug >-----Original Message----- >From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 2:19 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: RE: CFLOCATION mechanism..? > > >> Hoping someone can shed some light on the underlying >> mechanism that CFLOCATION uses to perform the re-direct. >> My current understanding is that it simply returns a >> header to the browser for a client side re-direct. However, >> I was testing to see if setting IE's "Allow META Refresh" to >> "DISABLE" would break CFLOCATION and I was surprised to see >> that it *did not*. It did however break <cfheader >> name="refresh" value="0; URL=foo.cfm"> which makes sense. >> What's going on here? > >When you use CFLOCATION, it's creating an HTTP response header >which looks a >little like this: > >HTTP/1.1 302 Object Moved >Location: someotherfile.html >... > >It's then up to your browser to request the other URL. > >A "META refresh", on the other hand, is an instruction >embedded within an >HTML page, using the META tag, which is something else >entirely. An HTML >author can't force the web server to return specific HTTP >headers, and the >META tag can be used to provide similar functionality. I'm >kind of surprised >that IE's setting stopped the CFHEADER tag from working, since >that's a real >HTTP response header, rather than a META tag, but it's not >like there aren't >any other bugs in IE, so I'm not too surprised. > >Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software >http://www.figleaf.com/ >voice: (202) 797-5496 >fax: (202) 797-5444 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
