Re: manual vs. meta refresh

On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 02:10 +0200, Tijnema wrote: > On 8/11/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote: > > On Fri, August 10, 2007 1:26 pm, Kevin Murphy wrote: > > > I doubt this, but is there any way to determine via PHP if a browser > > > was refreshed automatically via a META tag vs the person clicking the > > > refresh button? > > > > You could embed something in the META tag's URL such as: > > > > <meta http-equiv="refresh" > > content="5;http://example.com?from_meta_tag=1" > > > > > > > You would then need to re-direct back to the URL *without* the GET > > parameter from_meta_tag=1 so that their refresh button would not be > > going to that URL with from_meta_tag in it. > > > > Kind of kludgy, but should work > Do you guys read other replies first before making a reply yourself? > You're the third one making the same reply... Richard was providing a solution to handle the case of a meta redirect after a metaredirect. He indicates making a redirect (server side would be the interpretation) to remove the meta redirect flag in the meta redirects URL. However, it's still flawed since upon a server side redirect the script would think a manual refresh had occurred :) However, it can be done embedding an ID in the URL indicating that a serverside redirect has occurred, then saving that value to a database so upon a manual refresh that ID is detected as having been used already and so the manual redirect is detected. Yes, yes, this is kludgy indeed :) Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................