Re: HTTP-EQUIV
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Roedy Green wrote:
Microsoft sometimes responds to my probes like this . What does it mean?
I am familiar with Refresh with an URL. Is it just asking you to try
again later?
<HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0.1">
It's telling you to reload the same page 0.1 seconds later.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no cache">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">
And not to cache it.
That's quite bizarre behaviour.
Isn't Java supposed to follow such redirects on its own?
This is happening at the HTML level, not the HTTP level. An HTTP client
(like URLConnection) can handle redirects and refreshes at the HTTP level,
but if it's not parsing the HTML (which it's not), it won't be able to
handle those.
Meta HTTP-equiv tags are generally a sign of poor site design - if one has
some HTTP-level metadata, one should be saying it in HTTP, not HTML.
tom
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