If it's caching you want to prevent, here's how to do it:

(Got this from: http://www.webtools.com/story/servers/TLS19981021S0004)

To prevent the server from caching the page, put this in the page's HEAD
section:

<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="nocache">

To prevent the browser from caching the page, put this in the page's HEAD
section:

<meta http-equiv="expires" content="Thu, 1 October 1998 00:00:00 PST">

Use any date you want that is ALREADY in the past. 


---------------------------------------------------------
Chuck Evans
Web Marketing Manager
Captura Software, Inc.
(425) 424-1155
chucke(at)captura.com
www.captura.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Guse [mailto:pgooseman(at)yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 2:04 PM
To: Scott Bowling; hwg-languages(at)hwg.org
Cc: Peter Guse
Subject: Re: meta tag


It's for our company intranet.  What happens is I
change a form on our site and the users are not
refreshing their screen or clearing the cache to get
the most recent copy, and they eventually fill out the
1st version of the form when I want them to use the
current version.  I guess I could have the page
refresh to a copy of the original page and just save
it under a different name.   

example
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"
 CONTENT="5;URL=http://abc1.htm">

Where abc.htm is the original page and abc1.htm is the
revised page.

There maybe a better way but I'm not sure.

Peter







--- Scott Bowling <scottbff(at)erols.com> wrote:
> Peter Guse wrote:
> > 
> > I have the page refreshing after 5 sec but it
> refreshes itself every 5 
> > sec.  How do I make it stop after the first time
> or first 5 sec.
> > 
> >  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"
> CONTENT="5;URL=http://abc.htm">
> > 
> Why do you need a page to refresh itself after 5
> seconds, and only once?
> Usually this is used for splash pages that refresh
> to another page. I
> can't imagine why you'd want to refresh the same
> page like that (only
> one time), but couldn't you load another version of
> the page without the
> refresh meta tag? I assume that the url you're
> actually using is a fully
> qualified url, since you sau it's working.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Scott Bowling
> scottbff(at)erols.com

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