I'm trying to set the Refresh: header with CGI.pm, but I seem to be missing something. I thought that the value was the time in seconds that you can view the page before refreshing: 
print $q->header( -type    => 'text/html',
                  -expires => '-1d',
                  -pragma  => 'no-cache',
                  -refresh =>  '100' ),
       $q->start_html( -title      => 'Some Company's Bond Ticker',
                       -bgcolor    => '#00092A',
                       -background => '../images/i-4-bg.gif',
                       -onLoad     => 'initSymbols()',
                       -script     => $script,
                       -style      => { -code => $css } );

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It's taking abysmally long to refresh, however. I tried setting the time to '30' and it took several minutes (I stopped timing after two minutes and noticed it refreshing later). Shouldn't this generate the same result as <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="100">?

The headers it generates look like this: 

Expires: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 23:10:04 GMT
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 23:10:04 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Refresh: 100
Content-Type: text/html

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I'm using IE 5.5, and the page in question is bond ticker in a frame running along the bottom of a Page. The page also has a bit of JavaScript, so I wonder if that has any effect -- perhaps throwing the browser's timing off? Also, if this is not a reliable method of refreshing the Web page, can anyone make any suggestions?

Cheers,
Ovid

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