Refresh Not Working

mtorbin · Feb 2, 2006

Hey all,

OK, this started out as a perl problem and now I think it's an HTML / JS problem. I have some Perl code that, essentially, does what this little HTML code does here. Both are not working. I cannot get the refresh to execute. Please tell me why:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">[/URL]
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; URL=http://rhlwebsvr/ftpLogin.shtml">
<title>Untitled Document</title>

<script language="javascript">
function delayDownload() {
    var fileName = "myFile.zip";
    fullURL = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://rhlwebsvr/images/"[/URL] + fileName;
    window.setTimeout("processDownload(fullURL)", 2000);
}


function processDownload(fullURL) {
   location.href = fullURL;
}
</script>
</head>

<body onLoad="delayDownload()">
BLAH BLAH BLAH 
</body>
</html>

mtorbin · Feb 2, 2006

I've determined that the problem is the JS. Once the focus is moved to downloading the file, it never comes back, which I thought it did inherently. How do I correct this?

- MT

mtorbin · Feb 2, 2006

OK, this code works, but is it the best way to go about doing what I want to do:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">[/URL]
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; URL=http://rhlwebsvr/ftpLogin.shtml">
<title>Untitled Document</title>

<script language="javascript">
function delayDownload() {
    var fileName = "myFile.zip";
    fullURL = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://rhlwebsvr/images/"[/URL] + fileName;
    window.setTimeout("processDownload(fullURL)", 2000);
}


function processDownload(fullURL) {
   var newWindow;
   newWindow = window.open(fullURL,"Download","width=250,height=250");
   newWindow.close();
}
</script>
</head>

<body onLoad="delayDownload()">
BLAH BLAH BLAH 
</body>
</html>

- MT

BillyRayPreachersSon · Feb 3, 2006

Suggest you take this to the JavaScript forum (forum216), as it's clearly a JavaScript question.

Hope this helps,
Dan

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