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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 17:18 +0100
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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.



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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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