html help

[Toby Fisher]

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Adam Myrow wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
>
> > I use this in www.asmodean.net/mail.html to redirect to a secure server:
> >
> > <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;
> > URL=https://www.asmodean.net/cgi-bin/mailreader/nph-mr.cgi">
>
> Lynx doesn't directly support this.  It will show you something like
> [Refresh 0 Sec] and the URL.  They made it not support automatic refresh
> due to the fact that they expected blind users with Braille displays to be
> using Lynx and they wouldn't appreciate the page refreshing out from under
> them.  IMHO, it should be a configuration option so that the user can
> choose whether to support refresh or not.  As an asside, you can't disable
> refresh in IE under Windows unless you are using the latest beta of Jaws
> for Windows which finally implemented a feature to stop a page from
> refreshing.

What about 301/302 redirects?  These are automatic in Lynx, not sure how
they work though.

Cheers.[

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