From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 09:31:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA19745 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:31:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19730 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:31:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA06876; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:30:57 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:30:57 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lynx and refresh Message-ID: <19981029113057.A6293@emsphone.com> References: <3.0.3.32.19981029082927.01040bb4@207.227.119.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.3i In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981029082927.01040bb4@207.227.119.2>; from "Jeffrey J. Mountin" on Thu Oct 29 08:29:27 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 29), Jeffrey J. Mountin said: > This is rather odd. > > Lynx will not refresh every N seconds for URL's with ?refresh=N at > the end. Checked the man page, command line options, and web site. > > Or is this just not possible (at this time) with lynx. ?refresh=N means nothing. That's just a query arg passed to the server. Refreshes are usually done with a tag inside the document. Timed refreshing in lynx is possible, but not done, for a variety of reasons. My personal reason? I hate it when a page changes when I'm in the middle of reading it. See http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month0397/msg00883.html for another person's explanation of why lynx doesn't auto-refresh. Would a "while sleep 1 ; do lynx -dump http://my.server/status ; done" suffice for your purposes? -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message