Reloading a page

Anon

Hi:

We came across a requirement wherein PageA calls PageB and the PageB after loading for the first time needs to reload/refresh itself once and only once.

Could anyone send me a sample code for doing this.

Regards,

Balu

Anon

Well, what I have in mind is a slight hack, but it should work. I'm assuming you want to use PHP since your posting to a php forum, so here it goes. Basically, we'll just have an extra variable set in the url to tell it to refresh or not. In your example, Page A (home.html we'll say) loads another page (bio.php) and we'll go from here. Bio should contain the following:

<HEAD>

Then, we use the following code to decide if we want to refresh or not

<?
if (!($refresh == 1))
echo "<META http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"5; bio.php?refresh=1\">";

... rest of body ...

Hope that helps...

Chris King

Anon

The specification for the unofficial "refresh" header says that the URL has to be a fully qualified URL. Also, the "content" part of the markup should include the "URL=" sequence.

So I would use this instead:
print '<META http-equiv="refresh" content="5; URL=http://somewhere.com/bio.php?refresh=1">';

More information about the "refresh" header:
http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/pushpull.html