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Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load?

From "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load?
Date 2012-02-27 10:22 +0100
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El 24/02/2012 14:26, The Natural Philosopher escribió/wrote:
> Álvaro G. Vicario wrote:
>> El 22/02/2012 23:26, The Natural Philosopher escribió/wrote:
>>> Cos I want to make a page slightly different depending...
>>> ..I cant think of any parameter I might pass that would be affected by
>>> autorefersh or not tho.
>>>
>>> Maybe javsacript and a timer would enable one?
>>
>> The "auto-refresh" concept implies some previous work on your side.
>> It'd help a lot to know what's the code you wrote to accomplish it
>> (JavaScript, <meta> tag or whatever). Whatever, I have the impression
>> that it'd help even more to know the problem you want to fix rather
>> than just the solution you figured out.
>>
>>
> Well I used a meta tag so that the client refreshes in case new info has
> come in.
>
> However in this case the client can also POST new information, and I
> don't want it POSTING the same information every 5 minutes or whatever.

Then, it should be enough to use two different URLs, one of the <meta> 
tag and one for the action attribute in the form. Even if they actually 
point to the same file, the browser has no way to know.

> The idea is to construct a not very real time view (5 minute granularity
> is good enough) on some data, some of which the user can change.

Well, that's the prototypical use case for AJAX :)

> I haven't tested it to see if a refresh is actually different from a
> submit.

Oh, I thought you had. If the <meta> tag does not use POST, you don't 
have the problem in the first place.



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Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-22 22:26 +0000
  Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-02-22 16:27 -0800
  Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-02-22 22:49 -0500
  Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2012-02-24 13:40 +0100
    Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-24 13:26 +0000
      Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? bill <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2012-02-25 07:56 -0500
        Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2012-02-25 17:21 +0000
          Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-02-26 01:31 -0700
            Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-26 12:25 +0000
              Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-02-26 11:08 -0700
                Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page   load? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-02-26 19:40 +0100
                Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-02-26 13:06 -0700
                Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-26 21:12 +0000
                Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-02-26 12:44 -0600
                Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-02-26 13:09 -0700
                Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-26 21:14 +0000
                Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-02-27 04:02 -0700
      Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2012-02-27 10:22 +0100
        Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-27 12:00 +0000
          Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2012-02-27 14:08 +0100
            Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-27 14:12 +0000
              Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2012-02-27 17:18 +0100
                Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-02-27 11:59 -0500

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