Re: [whatwg] Page refresh interface

Andrea, Simon,

> Le 25 mars 2015 à 23:08, Andrea Rendine <master.skywalker.88@gmail.com> a écrit :
>> I think Refresh as an HTTP header is not specified anywhere, so per spec
>> it shouldn't work. However I think browsers all support it, so it would be
>> good to specify it.
> Indeed. It was Netscape-specific but it's widespread now (that's why we
> have a <meta http-equiv="refresh"> "surrogate").


I was not so sure about the interest of documenting it, but after [digging into it][1].
There seems to be many Web Compatibility hacks around it.

Do we have stats on how frequent the `Refresh:` header is on the Web? HTTP Archive maybe?


[1]: http://www.otsukare.info/2015/03/26/refresh-http-header


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Received on Thursday, 26 March 2015 07:29:11 UTC