- From: Carlos A Velasco <Carlos.Velasco@fit.fraunhofer.de>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 18:52:21 +0200
- To: Michael Cooper <michaelc@watchfire.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Hi Michael, My 2 cents: The technique proposed does work unless you have an Apache server [1] with the mod_html_meta module: <http://www.yoshidam.net/mod_html_meta.txt> Therefore, the standard technique shall be (as it was): use *always* server side redirects. regards, carlos [1] http://httpd.apache.org/ Michael Cooper wrote: > The issue I would like to raise comes from a suggestion about a way to do > auto-redirect in HTML. The standard way to do this is to use a <meta> > element to mimic an HTTP refresh header, e.g., > > <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="http://www.watchfire.com/" /> > > The suggestion was that we use the "location" header, e.g., > > <meta http-equiv="Location" content="http://www.watchfire.com/" /> > > I tested this in IE6 and Mozilla 1.2 and it did not work. Further, according > to my understanding of HTTP, it theoretically should not work. Therefore I > propose that we declare this a "non-technique" and close the issue, and need > the group's approval. -- Dr Carlos A Velasco - mailto:Carlos.Velasco@fit.fraunhofer.de Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik (FIT.LIFE) [Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT.LIFE)] http://access.fit.fraunhofer.de/ Barrierefreie Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie für Alle Schloss Birlinghoven, D53757 Sankt Augustin (Germany) Tel: +49-2241-142609 Fax: +49-2241-1442609
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