Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 06 November 2002 15:19, Eric L. Brine wrote: > HTML 4.01 also has a section on META and http-requiv. However, the > only reference to "refresh" is: "Note. Some user agents support the > use of META to refresh the current page after a speci

Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page

> No, that's "server push" you're thinking of. NPH (non-parsed header) > scripts are CGI scripts that talk directly to the client without the > server parsing headers and adding others (like the one that says it's > Apache). My bad. It was. But I think one needs to use NPH scripts to generate

Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, NPH is only implemented in the NS browsers, and was a way for a webserver to send multiple documents "inline" down to a browser, and was an ancient way to write status pages and such that "automagically" refreshed themselves. No, that's "server push" you're think

Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page

On the use of META REFRESH tags, Chris wrote: > It is also the only option for the "pause, then redirect" behavior the > original poster desired that I can think of. I also seem to recall reading in the HTTP spec (and in Lincoln's CGI.pm code) that the use of a Redirect header in response to a PO

RE: use http-equiv to refresh the page

> > I just wanted to mention that the meta tag as well as its http-equiv > > attribute are both official parts of the HTML standard and have been > > for quite some time. > > Yes and no. Well, I disagree with the no. I will explain it again below. > HTML 4.0 has a section on META and htt

RE: [OT] use http-equiv to refresh the page

Greetings. [...] > [snip] > CS:The W3C's stance on refresh is the same for the header as > well as the > CS:meta tag: they did not originally intend for it to be used > to specify a > CS:*different* URL as a rudimentary method of redirection. [...] > i was bitten by this assumption recently.

Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page

--- Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I might be overzealous about this, but I dislike seeing HTTP-EQUIV > meta > tags used when actual HTTP headers are available to do the same > thing. > It's fine if there's a reason for it, but usually people do it > because > they don't realize

RE: use http-equiv to refresh the page

> I just wanted to mention that the meta tag as well as its http-equiv > attribute are both official parts of the HTML standard and have been for > quite some time. Yes and no. HTML 4.0 has a section on META and http-requiv. In it, it mentions that "Some user agents support the use of META to re

Re: [OT] use http-equiv to refresh the page

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 at 22:52, Chris Shiflett opined: [snip] CS:The W3C's stance on refresh is the same for the header as well as the CS:meta tag: they did not originally intend for it to be used to specify a CS:*different* URL as a rudimentary method of redirection. They meant it to CS:be used t

Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page

Chris Shiflett wrote: I just wanted to mention that the meta tag as well as its http-equiv attribute are both official parts of the HTML standard and have been for quite some time. Netscape also introduced things like cookies and SSL, but that should in no way discredit the technology. I'm j

Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page

Wei Gao wrote: Thanks for the reminder. I think the reason that "print $query->redirect(-uri=>'http://www.mysite.com', -nph=>1);" is not working, is because my program doesn't seem to know how to handle "nph". I am using Apach1.3.26 and Perl 5.6.1. I have "use CGI qw(:standard -nph) ;" at the

Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page

Perrin Harkins wrote: Chris Shiflett wrote: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#h-7.4.4.2 Look a little further down that page: "/*Note.* Some user agents support the use of META to refresh the current page after a specifi

Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page

Chris Shiflett wrote: A meta tag is not something unique to Netscape I said it was added by Netscape, and I'm pretty sure it was, back in 1.1 or 2.0. As with any other HTML tag, the meta tag does not need to be part of an HTTP specification in order to be valid. Also, it is guaranteed to wor

Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page

> > Is using tag a \"bad\" approach? > > Yes. It\'s something that Netscape added to their browser, which others > may or may not add to their browsers. It\'s not part of any HTTP spec > and isn\'t guaranteed to work, even on totally correct web browsers. A meta tag is not something un

Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page

sage - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wei Gao Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:19 PM Subject: Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page Any time you see an Internal Server Error, you should be looking in yourapache server's error_log file to see

Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page

Wei Gao wrote: I have tried "print $query->redirect('http://somewhere.else/in/movie/land') ;" before, which works fine as to redirect the user to the web page. However, if the user then tries to refresh this page, the CGI script is called again without any params, which result in "Internal Se

Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page

PM To:"Perrin Harkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page Thanks. I have tried "print $query->redirect('http://somewhere.else/in/movie/land') ;" before, which works fine as to redirect th

Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page

Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 2:50 PM Subject: Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page Wei Gao wrote:> In my perl program executing in Apache web server, I have the > following code:>  > use CGI ;>  > $query = new CGI ;> $ur

Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page

Wei Gao wrote: In my perl program executing in Apache web server, I have the following code: use CGI ; $query = new CGI ; $url = http://www.mycite.com ; #The url to refresh. print $query->header(-status=>'200 Ok', -type=>'text/html'); print ""; Uh, that's not a redirect; that's an

use http-equiv to refresh the page

Hi, this is not a mod_perl question, but rather a question to see if I have to use mod_perl to achive this.   In my perl program executing in Apache web server, I have the following code:   use CGI ;   $query = new CGI ; $url = "http://www.mycite.com ;  #The url to refresh.  print $query