From: aoster (alster_at_interport.net)
Date: Mon Oct 02 1995 - 15:09:55 EDT
On Mon, 2 Oct 1995, aoster wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Oct 1995, Don Whiteside wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2 Oct 1995, aoster wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 2 Oct 1995, Don Whiteside wrote:
> > > > Also, the pages may be located on another server in the future - anyone
> > > > know the generic HTML redirection command? I know the Mosaic&Netscape
> > > > one, but there's a pure HTML command....
> > >
> > > You mean HTTP? ...it's Location: http://blah.blah.com/blahblah.html
> > >
> > > Or do you mean something else?
> >
> > Well, the tag I use is <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="1; URL=your.htm">
> > which is placed in the header and redirects the browsers that support it
> > to go to your.htm, whcih can be on another machine.
> >
> > I wasn't sure if there was a more universal command or not, though.
>
> Oh, that takes advantage of the "client-pull" feature of some browsers.
> It's basically same as "Refresh: 1; blah.html"
Forgot to also mention .....
Using Refresh: is not a redirect ...it still loads the first whatever page
and then sends the person to the "refresh" destination .....
Redirects ...like with Location: ...takes the person straight there
without loading the originating page and works with any browser.
http://www.interport.net/~alster/
alster_at_mindvox.phantom.com\\interport.net
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