> -----Original Message-----
> From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 3:52 PM
> To: Gisle Aas
> Cc: Keary Suska; Libwww Perl
> Subject: Re: LWP and Javascript?
> 
> 
> Yes, I think this would be a good idea.
> If the timeout is 0, nobody will see that page anyway.
> 

I disagree.  A meta tag of "refresh" (even one with a timeout of 0) is not
equivalent to a redirect in all contexts.  

For example, a spider that is crawling a site to check for broken links
would need to be able to check the contents of the page that has the
meta-refresh tag on it (since not all browsers honor the meta-refresh tag
and a good webmaster never presents a completely blank web page, even if he
thinks it will never be seen).  Doing an automatic redirect would deny the
robot access to that content, which probably has a link on it for the
browsers who can't handle meta-refresh.  I feel certain there must be other
contexts like this one, but which I can't think of right now.

I would strongly suggest that if the "meta-refresh equals redirect" behavior
is added to LWP, that it be enabled with a parameter (perhaps at object
creation) and disabled by default.

Just my 2 cents worth.

jpt

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