Re: Automatic Page Updates

Marc H. (march@thetics.europa.com)
Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:28:58 +0100

+--- On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Bill Allocca wrote:
| Is there any way in HTTP for a Server to automatically update a page
| without requiring the user of the client to click on anything?
+---

+--- On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Mark J Cox replied:
| The HTTP documentation mentions the Expires: header which "Gives the date
| after which the information ceases to be valid and should be retrieved
| again" to "allow for the periodic refreshing of displays of volitile
| data".
|
| Some clients are now starting to support the Expires header, but I know of
| none that will automatically refresh without user intervention. [...]
+---

I believe Netscape for X allows some sort of video/audio reception; but
since their site is completely unreachable this morning, I can't work
from anything but memory. That's a pretty specific solution to the
problem, in any case: only works if everyone is using one particular
browser/windowing setup.

Then again, this isn't TV -- maybe refreshing the page while the user
just sits there isn't such a great direction to take.

M. Hedlund <march@europa.com>