last modified refresh

[Scorpionkingct]

Can a page be made to refresh a page when the file’s last modified date is modified ? I want to avoid the traditional body onload refresh, so we display data on boards and they flicker pretty good due to old monitors. Basically I manually update a file and have to walk over to hit F5 each time I change data…

 

[ChrisHirst]

Nope.

HTTP is a "disconnected protocol. This means that once a document is delivered to the user agent there is no further communication between the user agent and the server.

You will have to use a Java applet/servlet to have that kind of communication with a user agent.

Chris.

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[feherke]

Hi

You could implement a workaround similar to CSSrefresh : periodically send HEAD requests through AJAX and refresh only when modification is detected.


Feherke.

http://feherke.github.com/