Automatically Refresh a Page

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Automatically Refresh a Page

Well... how do I?

paste

3:58 pm on Apr 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

Basically, I have a page that gets visited, usually more than once by a client, but the information on it gets updated and often won't show up unless the client refreshes their browser. What can I do to make the page refresh *once* each time it's visited? I'd be fine just using html to do this, but keep in mind that the page also uses Perl, so if anyone has a perlwise solution, that would be helpful also. Thanks

-eric

Alternative Future

4:07 pm on Apr 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

This will tell the broswer not to cache the page, so in effect would force a fresh page each visit.

Is this what you are after?

-George

paste

4:13 pm on Apr 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

Yes and no. I already have that line, along with:

but it still is cached by many browsers, for example, mine: IE6.

-eric

Alternative Future

4:16 pm on Apr 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

How about:

Not sure on the workings of these but thought they would have done what you were after...

-George

paste

4:18 pm on Apr 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

let's see... i also had:

also to no avail.

what i'd really like is just something that would refresh the page once, each time it's visited in a browser

-eric

Alternative Future

4:27 pm on Apr 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

Well that about cover the options in HTML meta tags :)

Here is a little javascript that will force a page to refresh each visit:

Does that work for you?

-George

Alternative Future

4:31 pm on Apr 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

oops that goes into an infinite loop...

My mistake:)

Try this one:

-George

paste

4:33 pm on Apr 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

Yes and no.

It reloads it, but as soon as it's reloaded, it reloads it again... and again... and again...

-eric

Alternative Future

5:00 pm on Apr 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

How about the second one?

-George

paste

5:08 pm on Apr 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

oh, i completely missed that one ;]

but no, that one doesn't seem to refresh it at all.

-eric

brucec

6:36 pm on Apr 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

George, you said to use:

This is ok, but i people turn off their javascript settings.

Purple Martin

11:15 pm on Apr 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

Maybe it's not your browser that is caching the page - maybe you're in a corporate environment and there is a corporate cache, or maybe it's your ISP doing the caching.