[WEB4LIB] Timeout script

[Leo Robert Klein]

On Thursday, January 23, 2003 9:21 PM, Elizabeth Julia Bollinger wrote:

> I'm wondering if anyone on the list has a script or a program that
> will send web browsers back to a specified web page once a specific
> period of time has passed.  Our IT department keeps putting us off
>  and we'd like have a suggestion to them to make the process move
> along more swiftly. We're using Windows NT and IE 5.5.

You could user a meta redirect -- it's almost a classic solution:

<META http-equiv="refresh" content="60;URL=http://www.umich.edu">

Make it part of the header and at least in this case, it'll redirect you to
umich.edu in 60 seconds.

LEO