[Gllug] HTTP redirects failing

[Sean Burlington]

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On Tuesday 16 April 2002 9:46 pm, Murray wrote:
> I don't think this is directly related, but IE6 allows you to disable meta
> refreshes as a "security" measure.  It's hidden in the custom security
> dialogs.
>
> I can't for the life of me understand why this would be a security issue.
> Plus, the fact that if you do it "properly" with the HTTP headers, it
> doesn't matter how you configure IE, it will obey the redirect.
>

I know that some search engines won't index pages that have a short 
meta-refresh - apparently this is often used by porn sites - they have lots 
of domain names - each site contains bogus page with lots of content (that 
the search engine might index on) and a refresh to the main porn pages.

so refusing to honour meta-refreshes /could/ prevent inadvertant porn-viewing.

Also advertising driven sites sometimes use meta-refresh to load in a new set 
of ads every few minutes - this is not in the users interest (especially if 
using dial-on-demad)

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Sean
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