On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:24 PM Daniel Veditz <dveditz@mozilla.com> wrote: > Smilies aside, I don't see any code that supports a Refresh: header in > Gecko. What browsers does Soni L's code work on? > I see support <https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/blink/renderer/core/loader/document_loader.cc?type=cs&g=0&l=924> for this in Chromium's code (only on Documents AFAICT). Usage <https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/1548> of the meta http-equiv seems rather high. I'll add similar usecounters for the HTTP header to see what %age of traffic actually sees these headers. > > -Dan Veditz > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:16 PM Daniel Veditz <dveditz@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:22 AM Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> wrote: >> >>> And why use a HTTP header for this, can't you just use a meta tag since >>> you >>> are doing a web page after all? >>> >> >> Ah, but the meta tag used for this since forever is >> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=http://www.example.com/" /> >> >> and the "http-equiv" teaches people that there MUST be an HTTP Refresh: >> header. The spec must be wrong :-) >> (good luck convincing web developers otherwise) >> >> -Dan Veditz >> >
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