[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Web Server
>
[some stuff deleted]
> > HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> > Server: foo
> > Last-Modified-Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 19:09:10 GMT
> > etc...
>
> John does your server do Meta tags? or is that a client thing?
^^^
Client thing, so from that perspective the server supports it fully. :)
> But anyways, if meta tags work, the following will do the exact same thing.
> Just put it between <head> </head> of the HTML.
> For the specific purpose the guy named with changing pictures from a
> webcam, do this:
>
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh"
> CONTENT="3;URL='http://www.homepage.com/spot2.html'">
^^^^^^
Yes making the browser automatically reload is a very different
approach, but a good one.
>
> Where the number after the content is the the number of seconds before the
> browser automatically refreshes, and the address is the page to be loaded,
> in your case, the same as the page.
>
> For the purpose of expiring, you can do the following:
>
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="Sun, 28 Dec 1997 09:32:45 GMT">
^^^^^^
Of course, yes this is easier than making the server selectively send
extra headers, for those browsers that support it - and most do.
I've obviously sent too long pondering server-based solutions to think of the
easy way to do things!
>
> Note, that I have not tried either with the pi3web server. I know not if
> this is dependent on the server or the browser.
^^^^
I have, and it is independent of the server, I think it requires NS 3.0
compatibility (same as MSIE3.0).
John
>