Re: Refresh:

• From: <tvaughan@aventail.com>
• Date: 29 Apr 1999 13:55:58 -0700
• To: "Andrew Prendergast" <ap@geekz.com.au>
• Cc: "Fabian Wein" <wein@iis.fhg.de>, "Harold A. Driscoll" <harold@driscoll.chi.il.us>, <www-talk@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <7qso9ji1sx.fsf@rehab.in.aventail.com>

"Andrew Prendergast" <ap@geekz.com.au> writes:

> The Location:.... in the HTTP headers does what's known as a HTTP
> referal.... META REFRESH is like a hacky povno version of it.

Umm... The idea behind Location: is to tell the browser to *go somewhere
else*. The idea behind REFRESH is to have the browser *re-load the current
page*.

-Tom

Received on Thursday, 29 April 1999 16:56:14 UTC