I have 3 machines that I support with broken browsers that don't follow redirects immediately. In fact if the page includes any content, any at all, the ignore the redirect. I'm not 100% sure, but I even thing they ignore meta tag redirects.
--mikej -=----- mike jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Geoff Coffey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 7:39 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: response.sendRedirect( .. ) > > > On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 08:32 AM, Tim Funk wrote: > > > I paraphrase as its nice to present some body content in your page > > since browsers/agents do have the option of displaying/parsing the > > body for some context before following the redirect. > > I stand corrected on that point, although I've never followed this > guidance in 8 years, and I've never seen a user agent that didn't > follow redirects immediately. I've also never seen anyone else do this. > But none-the-less, it would be wrong, then, for redirect to abort the > response. > > Thanks again, tim. > > Geoff > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
