Re: LYNX-DEV refreshing lynx.

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Mariusz Frydrych wrote:

> How to manage with autorefreshing in lynx?
> I mean lynx v2.7 parses the line like:
> 
> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="180; URL=/markets/us_markets.html">
> 
> but not respect it. It dosen't refresh the page !

No.  Why should it?

Lynx gives you a page where, with just one keypress, you can follow that
redirection yourself, if you want to.  It doesn't allow page authors to
turn it into a remote-controlled tv with non-standard pesudo-HTTP headers.

> I find out that lynx parses the line <meta ... "refresh" ...> because 
> for a relative URL it gives a message: "Alert!: Refresh URL not absolute"
> Writting down absolute URL doesn't help.

It seems you are not just a Lynx user but want to provide Web pages that
work with Lynx.  Ask yourself whether you really need to used that
"Refresh" Netscapism at all.  The HTTP protocol (1.0 and 1.1) provides
*standard* mean for redirection (although without a defined delay
time), and Lynx of course implements them.  Why not use those?  They
should be available with every decent HTTP server.

   Klaus

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