Re: Force a page refresh

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From: Steve Easton (admin_at_95isalive.com)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:13:22 -0400

If I understand your question correctly......
Without some definite action from the browser on a client machine No.
You can't "push" a web page from a server, it has to be "pulled" by a browser http request.
You can add a meta "content expires" tag to the page which will ensure the latest version is opened
when the page is visited but the viewer / client still has to either open or "refresh" the page. 

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"Rob" <xyz@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:OkHVM%23LcEHA.3420@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi everyone
>
> Is it possible to force a page refresh i.e. getting latest content from out
> intranet server without using the http refresh= whatever time specified.
>
> I am asking on behalf of a colleague who wants the latest content to be
> viewed when navigating from page to page on out intranet if he has done an
> update. The scenario is, someone leaves their browser open all day and has a
> quick look round - we want the latest version of any page to be displayed
> when navigating without burdening the server with continuous refreshes. i.e.
> get the latest versionon page load, not a predetermined time span. We are
> not ASP.
>
> Is there a little scripty trick for this please.
>
> Thank you very much
>
> Rob
>
>

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