Simple problem

[Anon]

Hi. I'd be very grateful if anyone could reply back to this thread. What i'm trying to achieve is to work out how to make a web page refresh automaically, not where it refreshes every 5 or so seconds, so when a user visits the page, it refreshes. Any ideas? I'm pretty sure it has something to do with meta http-equiv. Please help

[Anon]

Ok. From your description I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you are worried about the page being cached at the end-users computer so they don't get the lastest and greatest ? Best way to be sure the browser doesn't cache content is to use the example here:

http://www.php.net/header

header ("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Date in the past
header ("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT"); // always modified
header ("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); // HTTP/1.1
header ("Pragma: no-cache"); // HTTP/1.0

This will keep the browser or any proxy in between (generally) from caching your documents.

If that isn't what you need, sorry, just trying to help 🙂

Chris King

[serge_s]

I think this is what you are looking for:
<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"120\">

Hope this helps!

-Serge