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Re: LYNX-DEV refreshing lynx.
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Re: LYNX-DEV refreshing lynx. |
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Tue, 25 Feb 1997 22:14:26 -0500 (EST) |
Klaus Weide wrote:
>
> On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Mariusz Frydrych wrote:
> > <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="180; URL=/markets/us_markets.html">
> No. Why should it?
>
> Lynx gives you a page where, with just one keypress, you can follow that
> redirection yourself, if you want to. It doesn't allow page authors to
> turn it into a remote-controlled tv with non-standard pesudo-HTTP headers.
>
I would call being supported by about 85% of the installed base a standard.
But thats just me. In any case, re-load is a useful tool for authors, and
it should thusly be supported. (Oh, and the fact that it is a pesudo-HTTP
header is actuly a point in its favior.)
> > I find out that lynx parses the line <meta ... "refresh" ...> because
> > for a relative URL it gives a message: "Alert!: Refresh URL not absolute"
> > Writting down absolute URL doesn't help.
>
> It seems you are not just a Lynx user but want to provide Web pages that
> work with Lynx. Ask yourself whether you really need to used that
> "Refresh" Netscapism at all. The HTTP protocol (1.0 and 1.1) provides
> *standard* mean for redirection (although without a defined delay
> time), and Lynx of course implements them. Why not use those? They
> should be available with every decent HTTP server.
>
Rederiction differs from client-pull animation in a vital way: with
client-pull the user can see the first page first. For a good use of
refresh that you couldn't do with redierection, look at
<http://zero.genx.net/stats.html>. (While your there, join the fun).
--- James Mastros
> Klaus
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