prasadbabu has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks,

This is not related to perl, but some of you might have known the solution for this.

How to refresh the IE browser automatically with time settings.

I want to refresh the perl monks site after every 3 mins automatically instead of refreshing manually by pressing F5.

Is there anyway to do this.

I have searched by google for solution, by that solution, i tried, but it is not refreshing after every 3 mins.

Thanks in advance,

Prasad

Retitled by davido.

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Re: OT: refresh browser automatically
by NetWallah (Canon) on Jan 11, 2005 at 04:45 UTC
    A Google search returned this site that claims :

    "This program will automatically refresh a internet website page(s). The idea is that you may have enough time to scan a news story headline or sports scores before the refresh time expires. It is great for watching stock charts, stock prices, sports scores and other static pages. If you enter more than one url or address the program will show each page one after the other and then return to the first page and start the rotation over or you may choose multiple windows and each url will have its own window."

    It even appears to have an MSI-based installer !.

    Needless to say, this is all untested and I cannot vouch for functionality or absence of spyware.

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Re: OT: refresh browser automatically
by erix (Prior) on Jan 11, 2005 at 12:11 UTC

    The opera browser has this functionality built-in.

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Re: OT: refresh browser automatically
by archen (Pilgrim) on Jan 11, 2005 at 14:16 UTC
    Think I would just create a local html page with a single frame (or two if needed) that loads perl monks, then just do a simple javascript timer to refresh every 3 minutes.
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      I think the point is that it would be nice if there was an alternate entryway to Perlmonks provided by Perlmonks that did this. That way, you have all sorts of things like a drop-down for how often you want the page refreshed, etc.

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