Can't control page refresh rate

**ben_m_gunn** · Jul 22, 2003 19:18

Hi All

I am trying to create a page that will automatically refresh itself after a sort period of time. I have used meta tags to acheive this effect and it works well on both linux and OSX. The problem is that under windows IE the page refreshes so quickly that it is impossible to see anything. It appears that IE completely ignores the time delay setting in the refresh header. I have tried using both <meta> tags and header() but the result is the same. Is the refresh <meta> tag incompatable with IE?

regards, Ben

Code:

<?php
	error_reporting(E_ALL);
	//header('refresh', '10; url=adsl-cpanel.php');
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10; url=adsl-cpanel.php">
<title>ADSL Control Panel</title>
<style type="text/css">
.status {
	position: absolute;
	border-width: 2px;
	border-style: solid;
	border-color: black;
	padding: 10px;
	background-color: #f3f3f3;
}
</style>

</head>
<body>
	<div style="position: absolute; top: 20px; left: 20px; height: auto; width: auto;">
<?php
	/* Determine if connection exists */
	//echo exec("/sbin/ifconfig ppp0");
	$adsl_status = exec('/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 > /dev/null; echo $?');
	if ($adsl_status == 0)
	{
		$image = 'adsl_on.jpg';	
		$status_text = "ADSL connected";	
	}
	else
	{
		$image = 'adsl_off.jpg';
		$status_text = "ADSL not connected";
	}
?>
		<h2>ADSL CONNECTION</h2><br>
		<div class="status">
			<img class="status_light" src="<?php echo $image; ?>" height="20" width="20">&nbsp;<?php echo $status_text; ?><br>
		<div>
		<div style="position: absolute; top: 100px; left: 0px;">
			<a href="adsl-onoff.php?status=<?php echo $adsl_status; ?>"><img class="onoff" src="button.gif">&nbsp;Start/Stop ADSL Connection</a>
		</div>	
	</div>
</body>
</html>

**Dan Grossman** · Jul 22, 2003 19:29

Meta refresh works fine in IE, and always has as far as I know. Your meta refresh as above works for me in Firebird and IE6 both taking the same 10 seconds before refreshing.

**Webnauts** · Jul 25, 2003 04:27

I regret to inform you, that the redirect solution you are using is not ok.

Why?

See here: http://www.w3.org/2001/06tips/reback

**Dan Grossman** · Jul 25, 2003 11:27

If you're going to take a standpoint, I'll take one too. Sending a 301 header pointing to the same page makes no sense and is LYING TO THE USER. There was no permanent move of the page.

Not to mention, your solution does not solve his problem of wanting to redirect after a specific amount of time.

**Webnauts** · Jul 26, 2003 15:42

Originally Posted by Dan Grossman

If you're going to take a standpoint, I'll take one too. Sending a 301 header pointing to the same page makes no sense and is LYING TO THE USER. There was no permanent move of the page.

Not to mention, your solution does not solve his problem of wanting to redirect after a specific amount of time.

You are right. I missed that point. Well I guess it would be better using JavaScript, if there is a concern of SEO.

**Dan Grossman** · Jul 26, 2003 17:38

I'm quite evil.

**Viral** · Jul 29, 2003 13:18

That meta refresh is exactly right. If it doesn't work for you, there's something wrong with your browser. What does it do when you load that page?

As for the redirect, that is a valid point if he were redirecting, which he's not. =)

--Viral

**ben_m_gunn** · Aug 1, 2003 17:50

Actually I have found the issue. This page does in fact work as intented. The issue turned out to be with a page that redirects the browser to the one posted here. What I did was create an "index.html" page that would automatically redirect the browser to the page posted here. I used the same headers technique to do the forwarding. I did not want to use JavaScript because I was concerned about people that have JS turned off. As I originally mentioned, everything was working fine on my Linux box, but windows IE 5.5/6 would just go mental everytime it hit that index page. This is why I thought there might have been compatability problems. Unfortunately I can't post the code right now as I don't have access to my machine.

Regards, Ben

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