I'm curious how this would work? If I open a page with an invisible GIF, there's no way (without scripting and such) to have the GIF "refresh", right? Or is there something I'm missing?
You can set a meta refresh on the page, but not the GIF itself, as far as I know anyway. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Fri, May 13, 2005 12:04 pm, Tim Diggins said: > I'd just include this invisible gif on every page (request) of webapp B. > (bone-headed solution, but why get more tricksy until you need it). > > -- Tim > > Patrick Lacson wrote: >> Interesting solution Tim.. so webapp B would invoke this invisible gif >> from webapp A on an interval basis? >> >> -P >> >> On 5/13/05, Tim Diggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Hi Patrick - >>> >>>If not an iframe, why not a gif... There's nothing (in principle I >>>think*) stopping you having a jsp page that returns a (tiny, invisible) >>>gif (with the right mimetype) and with appropriate expires/cache-control >>>headers to make sure that it gets "got" each time. That's the way some >>>web-counters work, for example, and I can't see it would create a >>>problem... (I don't however know whether you can maintain two session >>>cookies at the same time... Would work however with a param-based >>> session). >>> >>>--Tim >>> >>>* I have done this in similar kinds of situations with python & php, but >>>not tomcat. >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
