Thank you very much Abdulaziz, it works perfectly. I did not even know such
a header existed, at first I was confused about what you were trying to say,
but I looked around on the net and found what you meant.
My page works flawlessly now, however I'm still puzzled why my meta refresh
did not work. It worked in Opera, but not in Internut Exploder and I can't
see why. I have seen plenty of examples on the web that show this meta
refresh technique being used....and IE is probably the most popular browser
on the web...why would it not support this? I know you tried to explain
this to me, but I don't follow.
My CGI generates an HTML document does it not? And the user's browser
interprets that document just like any other web page. So why would it not
work?
Anyway, as I started off by saying, thank you very much! It doesn't matter
for my page any longer, I am just curious.
-Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Abdulaziz Ghuloum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: META REFRESHES
> Hello,
> Just a question, why are you using a meta if you can pass the header
> directly? The meta AFAIK is used so that the server adds the appropriate
> lines to the header before sending the document.
>
> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1256">
>
> For example, adding the previous line to your html file will cause the
> server to send "Content-type: text/html; charset=windows-1256" instead of
> the usual "Content-type: text/html".
>
> If however you're using CGI, the server will not add any appropriate
> headers since you're responsible for supplying all the headers from your
> script. So, adding that last line to a cgi script will be useless.
>
> Same probably applies for your line. Just add the "Refresh: 5" header to
> your script instead of using the meta.
>
> Hope this helps,,,
>
> Aziz,,,
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Sawmaster"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Can someone tell me why this isn't working on IE?
> >
> > It works within Opera, I don't know about netscape yet.
> >
> > print qq~<META http-equiv="refresh" content="5;
> > URL=http://mypage.html";>\n~;
> >
> >
>
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