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fashezee

4:05 pm on Jun 14, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I would like to have the page refreshed whenever it is requested.

<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" Content="?">

My 450 page book I have on HTML seems to have overlooked this issue. ahhhh books.

snafu

4:36 pm on Jun 14, 2002 (gmt 0)



The web is stateless. A zero-second refresh of a static page results in an infinite loop.

If it's a dynamic page, you can slap a new number after the program name (such as a process ID number), as in: www.mypage.com/cgi-bin/program.cgi/2476

When program.cgi loads, the "/2476" goes into PATH_INFO, but you can ignore it. All browser caches and network cache servers will be fooled into thinking that this is a request for a page they don't have (as long as the number is different), and will fetch it anew.