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IE 6 not refreshing
31.08.03
IE 6 not refreshing
Just stumbled upon yet another funky IE6 "bug" (if I may say so...)
When you want to automatically refresh to another page, you send a header that looks something like:
Refresh:0;url=http://blah.blah.blah
The funky thing is that if that header exceeds the maximum size of 263 characters, IE won't do the refresh! |-|
Okay there's got to be a limit, but why so low? And why "263" ?? :crazy:
No need to say, auto refreshes work fine in Firebird with lengths much higher than that.
=> I guess this is why you still need to put some dirty message underneath like 'if nothing happens, please click here!' Bleh! >:XX
PS: Please don't tell me to use a Location: instead. This would do no good to setting cookies.
2 comments
Comment from: Eric Daspet [Visitor]
I tried to find out why 263 :0;url=http://blah.blah.blah = 263 char
then URL is 263-6 = 257 char
In RFC, isn't a URL 256 char (minimum) ?
It may be that reason. If so, it is not a bug (as it validates minimum requirements)
2003-09-01 @ 11:59
Comment from: François PLANQUE [Visitor]
hence the quotes on "bug".Now the funky stuff: if you use only 256 chars for the URL, but make the whole string longuer than 263 chars, as in:
Refresh:0; url=http://blah.blah.blah (space added after ; ), it will fail also! :crazy:
2003-09-01 @ 13:58
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