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

From	Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load?
Date	2012-02-27 11:59 -0500
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On 2/27/2012 11:18 AM, "Álvaro G. Vicario" wrote:
> El 27/02/2012 15:12, The Natural Philosopher escribió/wrote:
>>>> Well that is the problem isn't it? The browser cannot KNOW. If I POST a
>>>> form to mypostingtarget.php and THAT comes back with a 'meta refresh'
>>>> statement THAT is the target that is going to be refreshed?.
>>>
>>> Okay, I think I finally see what the problem is.
>>>
>>> The complete syntax for a <meta> direct is this:
>>>
>>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/meta#attr-http-equiv
>>>
>>> In the "refresh" bit we can read:
>>>
>>> «This pragma specifies:
>>>
>>> - the number of seconds until the page should be reloaded, if the
>>> content attribute contains only a positive integer number;
>>>
>>> - the number of seconds until the page should be redirected to
>>> another, if the content attribute contains a positive integer number
>>> followed by the string ';url=' and a valid URL.»
>>>
>>> I guess you are using the first feature ("reload") and I thought you
>>> were using the second one ("redirect"). Just tweak your PHP code to
>>> generate a <meta> tag with the ";url=" part.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Oh, so what you are saying is that a POST operation generates a page
>> that has a redirect back to the page that produced the POST *request*
>> not the *result*, but then that *is* the page that if refreshed again
>> will POST again.. ;-0)
>
> I'm just saying that:
>
> 1. A redirect always triggers a GET request.
> 2. It's _your_ page and _you_ control what URL is written into the
> <meta> tag.
>
> Honestly, I'm completely lost as about what's not clear so far.
>
>
>

You forget who you're talking to, Álvaro.

How about taking this offline?  It has nothing to do with PHP.

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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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