| Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? [message #177210 is a reply to message #177209] |
Mon, 27 February 2012 16:59  |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 2/27/2012 11:18 AM, "Álvaro G. Vicario" wrote:
> El 27/02/2012 15:12, The Natural Philosopher escribió/wrote:
>>>> Well that is the problem isn't it? The browser cannot KNOW. If I POST a
>>>> form to mypostingtarget.php and THAT comes back with a 'meta refresh'
>>>> statement THAT is the target that is going to be refreshed?.
>>>
>>> Okay, I think I finally see what the problem is.
>>>
>>> The complete syntax for a <meta> direct is this:
>>>
>>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/meta#attr-http-equiv
>>>
>>> In the "refresh" bit we can read:
>>>
>>> «This pragma specifies:
>>>
>>> - the number of seconds until the page should be reloaded, if the
>>> content attribute contains only a positive integer number;
>>>
>>> - the number of seconds until the page should be redirected to
>>> another, if the content attribute contains a positive integer number
>>> followed by the string ';url=' and a valid URL.»
>>>
>>> I guess you are using the first feature ("reload") and I thought you
>>> were using the second one ("redirect"). Just tweak your PHP code to
>>> generate a <meta> tag with the ";url=" part.
>>>
>>>
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>> Oh, so what you are saying is that a POST operation generates a page
>> that has a redirect back to the page that produced the POST *request*
>> not the *result*, but then that *is* the page that if refreshed again
>> will POST again.. ;-0)
>
> I'm just saying that:
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> 1. A redirect always triggers a GET request.
> 2. It's _your_ page and _you_ control what URL is written into the
> <meta> tag.
>
> Honestly, I'm completely lost as about what's not clear so far.
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>
You forget who you're talking to, Álvaro.
How about taking this offline? It has nothing to do with PHP.
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