[jdugger]

Hi,

I've searched hi and low but haven't been able to find any discussion on this topic:

I have a webpage (implemented in php/javascript/html) that needs to refresh once every minute. I'm currently doing that using the http-equiv="refresh" content="60" metatag thing.

The problem is that every once in a while the page fails to load for one reason or another (this happens about 3-5 times per day), at which point the "Page cannot be found" page is displayed. When that happens, the refresh instruction is lost and the page stops refreshing until someone notices the problem and manually refreshes the page.

It's very important for this page to be able to automatically recover from this situation without human intervention. Is there any way, using javascript or otherwise, to make this happen?

Any creative ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Janice

[hadumaster]

hey jdugger ,


It seems they're aren't many of is with this problem. I have the EXACT SAME issue! My hookup is similar to yours as well. My page only refreshes by manually entering it. It just happens to me 10X a day. at least!

I ahve theorized that the issue maybe out of my control, like a neighborhood issue. I live in Mill Basin, brooklyn, a very wealthy neighborhood, and we have one cable box. Everyone in my neighborhood has optimum. Just sucks if that really is the reason.

[job0107]

Can you explain why you need to refresh your page every 60 seconds?
There may be a better way to go about this if I understood the reasoning behind it.

[Yeronimo]

Meta refresh can be blocked for many reasons. E.g. you situation with an error on page, browser settings etc.

Try use this javascript code to do the refresh. Obviously javascript needs to be enabled for this to work:

<script type="text/javascript">
var t=null;
 
function refresh(sec){
    t=setTimeout(function(){location.reload(true);}, (sec*1000) );
}
function init()
{
    refresh(60);
}
window.onload=init;
</script>