> -----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
