[11297] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Refresh:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tvaughan@aventail.com)
Thu Apr 29 17:08:03 1999
From: tvaughan@aventail.com
To: "Andrew Prendergast" <ap@geekz.com.au>
Cc: "Fabian Wein" <wein@iis.fhg.de>,
"Harold A. Driscoll" <harold@driscoll.chi.il.us>, <www-talk@w3.org>
Date: 29 Apr 1999 13:55:58 -0700
In-Reply-To: "Andrew Prendergast"'s message of "Fri, 30 Apr 1999 04:52:25 +1000"
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
"Andrew Prendergast" <ap@geekz.com.au> writes:
> The Location:.... in the HTTP headers does what's known as a HTTP
> referal.... META REFRESH is like a hacky povno version of it.
Umm... The idea behind Location: is to tell the browser to *go somewhere
else*. The idea behind REFRESH is to have the browser *re-load the current
page*.
-Tom
