On Jun 11, 10:43 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Those are not /server side/ refreshes...
Correct. But we weren't discussing server side refreshes. We were discussing how to make the "browser refresh automatically in the server side": On Jun 11, 7:59 am, Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Surely you don't think you can do that without Javascript don't you? > You can't make the browser refresh automatically in the server side, > it has to be done in the client side scripting or like Opera browser > that have an option to make it refresh a page every few seconds. The example I posted showed a simple way to "make the browser refresh automatically in the server side" by using an HTTP Refresh header instead of using any Javascript or client side scripting or setting a browser option to refresh the page every few seconds. On Jun 11, 10:43 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:36:59 -0700 (PDT), Dave Parker > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in > comp.lang.python: > > > Yes you can. I don't know how to do it in Python, but here's an > > example in Flaming Thunder of a small, fast, light compiled server > > side CGI that delivers dynamic content every 10 seconds. > > > # Write out the HTTP headers, followed by a blank line. > > # Make sure to write CRLF and not just LF, as per HTTP > > # specs. Also, turn off caching using the no-cache and > > # expires options, so that caching doesn't conflict with > > # refreshes. > > > Set CRLF to CarriageReturn+LineFeed. > > Write "Refresh: 10; url=http://www.flamingthunder.com/cgi/ > > refresh.cgi",CRLF. > > Those are not /server side/ refreshes... The first thing being > written is a command to the browser that tells the browser to reload the > specified page after a delay period. > > IOWs it is the browser doing the refresh -- which means it starts a > whole new connection, receiving a page from the CGI script... Said page > again having a browser command to do a delayed refresh. > > Server side would mean that the server somehow continuously sends > updates WITHOUT BEING ASKED. > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > (Bestiaria Support Staff: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > HTTP://www.bestiaria.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
