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Refreshing A Page Just Once

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CandieCane

CandieCane

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Apr 9, 2002
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Hi!
If anyone could give me an idea on how going about this, I'd be greatful. I have been trying to use the: <META HTTP-EQUIV=&quot;refresh&quot; CONTENT=&quot;0;&quot;>. This proves to be quite difficult using Frames.

Any help appreciated, Candie ;o)

&quot;Never forget what you learn & learn from what you forget!&quot;
 
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If anyone is reading this, I'll be a little more specific...

I am using frames (top, left & main). My left frames is the navigational links, top is the logo & main in where the pages are displayed. In my left frame links, I have a admin logon link that prompts the user to enter a userid and password. He then clicks on the logon button that goes to an asp which checks our database to see if he exists. In this asp page, we define a Session variable set to &quot;yes&quot; if he exists. We then redirect to the frameset, and in the left frame I have an if statement. IF Session(&quot;admin&quot;) = &quot;yes&quot; then display the default links plus some extra and ELSE being just the default links. In order for this to show, I need to refresh that frame just once for them to be displayed

If anyone has any ideas or knows how to do this, please write back!

Thanks!!! Candie ;o)

&quot;Never forget what you learn & learn from what you forget!&quot;
 
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Funny you should say that...

In your asp processing page, once you have validated the user, set a variable to true (make sure it is false if you haven't just validated!):

getrefresh=true

Then in your HTML body tag add this code:

Code: 
<BODY <%If getrefresh then %>onLoad=&quot;javascript:parent.leftframename.location.href=&quot;yourpage.asp&quot;<% End if %>>

Which will conditionally load the left frame when this page has loaded. You could do this with a function or whatever, but this is more simple.



Derren
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hey i have a similar question concerning this topic.

i have a bulletin board in my mainframe (left and top frames also exist). when i post a new message on the board and return to it, it doesnt update the new posts.

i basically have to hit the refresh on my browser to see the new post.

i added the <META HTTP-EQUIV=&quot;refresh&quot; CONTENT=&quot;0;&quot;> but it is a continuous loop of refreshing.

how would i have it autorefresh just once????

thank you in advance.
 
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Derren,
Thanks for the tip. I figured this out for myself later after my posts. As for asking the same question in multiple forums, I'm not sure where everyone goes to look all the time so I took my chances and wrote it in every forum that it related too.

Hi Kavaman,
I seen that thread for that meta tag in another forum and tried it myself. It did the same for me! 1 way of going about refreshing a page just once is that way Derren said by using javascript all in one. Another would be writing a separate function using <script language=&quot;javascript&quot;> in the header to call a function in the onLoad() within the body. Such as:

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv=&quot;Content-Type&quot; content=&quot;text/html; charset=iso-8859-1&quot;>
<script language=&quot;javascript&quot;>
function NavLoad()
{
parent.leftFrame.location='Frame3.asp'
}
</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot; text=&quot;#000000&quot; onLoad=&quot;NavLoad();&quot;>
</body>
</html>

Hope that helps! If not, a couple of good websites are aspin.com & htmlgoodies.com. I'm sure there's more but their pretty good resources! If you still have probs, I'll try and help! ;o)

Candie ;o)

&quot;Never forget what you learn & learn from what you forget!&quot;
 
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Here are the meta tags you need to ensure that the page does not cache and does not need refreshing:

Code: 
<META http-EQUIV=&quot;expires&quot; CONTENT=&quot;0&quot;><META http-EQUIV=&quot;Pragma&quot; CONTENT=&quot;no-cache&quot;>
Derren
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