> Iain McLaren wrote:
>> On inspection of the html for the altavista homepages, it seems
>> that the webmasters have added a line:
>> <META http-equiv=Refresh content=1800>
>> This makes Netscape (and probably every other browser) reload
>> the page every 30 minutes from when the page was first loaded.
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, David Dove wrote:
> The feature which refreshes page content is used at AltaVista to
> update the ABCNEWS.COM headlines. That META tag is designed for
> pages which change on a frequent basis, such as news feeds.
> If this behavior is disturbing to you, avoid pages that use that
> META tag.
If you can't configure your web browser to ignore or modify such
directives, you could probably use a proxy server to remove the offending
lines from pages before they reach your browser.
Ed
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