Re: tlug: META tags in perl scripts

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

>Um, on second thought, what "refresh" directive?
>
>It doesn't seem to exist in the standards.  Do you have an URL?

Yes, you're right. According to O'Reilly's HTML The Definitive Guide,
"Client-pull dynamic documents work with Netscape and Internet Explorer
because the browsers respond to a special HTTP header field called refresh":

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="15">  (reload current page after 15
seconds)
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="15; URL=http://www.yahoo.com"> (go to
Yahoo after 15 secs)


And to reply to Stephen's other mail:
>    Darren> You don't need the content type I believe;
>
>You do if you want to conform to standards.  Some browsers (w3.el in

PHP's header() command, like CGI.pm, was hiding that from me :-).

Darren

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