RE: [PHP] Refresh vs Location

The <META> refresh tag isn't HTTP; it's HTML, which is probably why you didn't find it in the HTTP spec :). The <META> refresh tag isn't quite as robust as the HTTP header, but it generally works fine. There are some HTTP apps that use HTTP but not HTML, so the <META> HTML tag wouldn't be read by them, although they would understand the Location: HTTP header. In general practice, however, the refresh tag works fine. --Bruce Bruce Christensen Intel Corporation brucex.r.christensen@intel.com -----Original Message----- From: Richard Heyes [mailto:php@heyes-computing.net] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 8:41 AM To: PHP Windows Cc: PHP General Subject: [PHP] Refresh vs Location I've been having a little trouble getting a script to perform a setcookie() function and then redirect onto a different page using header('Location: ...') under Win2k-AS/IIS5. It seems however that issuing a refresh header instead of the location (Refresh: 0; url=...) works quite happily. Is there any reason not to use the refresh header over location (I can't seem to find it in the http1.1 spec either...) both on this platform and potentially others too (ie. apache/unix)? -- Richard Heyes http://www.heyes-computing.net/scripts/ Plain text email only please! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net