- From: Karl Dubost <karl+w3c@la-grange.net>
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:12:49 -0500
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Bryce Nesbitt <bnesbitt@bepress.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Le 13 nov. 2010 à 04:40, Julian Reschke a écrit : > On 13.11.2010 02:04, Adrien de Croy wrote: >> Is this Refresh header (which isn't in HTTP, so surely should be >> X-Refresh?) legit? Is it supported? > > As far as I can tell, the right thing to do is to write a short Internet Draft specifying the syntax and the semantics and registering it. Bonus points for discussing alternate approaches (Retry-After, Redirects), and the connection to HTML... Content for helping with the writing. There are implications for caches, accessibility, usability, plus I guess a few funky rules for parsing. The producer must be strict if defined, but we have to be careful with the parsing. History of refresh techniques http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/6Z00320HFQ.html Accessibility Issues http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#meta-element And the way to disable it in Firefoxv3 http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/ht/ffmetarefresh.htm On wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection#Refresh_Meta_tag_and_HTTP_refresh_header A W3C QA tip, recommending other practices http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback Refresh in html5 http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/semantics.html#attr-meta-http-equiv-refresh It's available in IIS http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240774 Permanent redirect and Refresh http://www.somacon.com/p145.php It seems Firefox and IE take " " in addition of ";" as a separator for the META to be tested on http headers too http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=20117 Mechanize, a python lib is implementing it http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/doc.html Issues with Mobile Best Practices http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/#d0e959 -- Karl Dubost Montréal, QC, Canada http://www.la-grange.net/karl/
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