Ajax does a check - then force a page refresh?

[Cups]

Hi,

I hope I am in the correct forum for this question.

(it certainly feels a bit like kromeys recent question)

I have a results service page which needs to check back to the server once every minute or so to see if a number has changed. This will go on for a number of hours. In the past I just did a straight html refresh using meta tags which resulted in millions of hits as people were just looking at pages.

This time I am also putting out rss feeds to try and reduce the traffic.

Is there a way of getting Ajax to check a number on the server, and then somehow provoking the browser to refresh the whole page? One idea I had was somehow resetting a JS refresh timer?

I mean I don't think its possible, and I dont particularly want to go Kromeys route of having x amount of ajax requests ... but if you dont ask ...

Thanks for any tips.

[G.Schuster]

Well - you _have_ to send requests to the server in order to get the current number, there's no way around.
But with AJAX (better: JS) you can reduce the traffic to a minimum.

For example use the http://script.aculo.us periodical updater: http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptac...iodicalUpdater
It calls a nice little script that only returns the number - then you check with JS if the result is what you expect and then just execute a window.reload();

Simple, eh?

[Cups]

window.onload, yeah, thanks - will take a look at that.

thanks for your help.