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List:       lynx-dev
Subject:    Re: LYNX-DEV refreshing lynx.
From:       Tom Zerucha <root () deimos ! ceddec ! com>
Date:       1997-02-27 2:11:39
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It is from cnnfn.com.  They update their market data every 3 minutes.

I use my trivial command line browser and awk script, i.e.

upget cnnfn.com/markets/us_markets.html -i 180 | t2tgrnest

(I actually use this method on a PC Quote page with lots more data that
does not have a refresh netscapism, but does refresh).

Or, while(true); do lynx -source cnnfn.com... | t2tgrnest ; sleep 180 ;
done;

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Klaus Weide wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Mariusz Frydrych wrote:
> 
> > How to manage with autorefreshing in lynx?
> > I mean lynx v2.7 parses the line like:
> > 
> > <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="180; URL=/markets/us_markets.html">
> > 
> > but not respect it. It dosen't refresh the page !
> 
> No.  Why should it?
> 
> Lynx gives you a page where, with just one keypress, you can follow that
> redirection yourself, if you want to.  It doesn't allow page authors to
> turn it into a remote-controlled tv with non-standard pesudo-HTTP headers.
> 
> > I find out that lynx parses the line <meta ... "refresh" ...> because 
> > for a relative URL it gives a message: "Alert!: Refresh URL not absolute"
> > Writting down absolute URL doesn't help.
> 
> It seems you are not just a Lynx user but want to provide Web pages that
> work with Lynx.  Ask yourself whether you really need to used that
> "Refresh" Netscapism at all.  The HTTP protocol (1.0 and 1.1) provides
> *standard* mean for redirection (although without a defined delay
> time), and Lynx of course implements them.  Why not use those?  They
> should be available with every decent HTTP server.

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