Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:30:57 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff@mountin.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lynx and refresh Message-ID: <19981029113057.A6293@emsphone.com> 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 References: <3.0.3.32.19981029082927.01040bb4@207.227.119.2>
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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 <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT=300> 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
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