Are there any refresh commands?

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

My perl script is outputting to an html file. Was wondering if there were a way to have the script refresh the html page. It's set up kind of crazy right now. I go to one page to run the script so that it will update the html content, but the html page needs to be manually refreshed everytime.

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Re: Are there any refresh commands? by Daddio (Chaplain) on Apr 19, 2001 at 00:19 UTC
How about a `<META>` tag? You could use a `<META http-equiv="refresh" content="15,url=/your_page.html">` combined with a `<META http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">` to force a refresh from the server.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Are there any refresh commands? by tadman (Prior) on Apr 18, 2001 at 23:54 UTC
You could always make your Perl script output some data that is used by a CGI script later, or if this is too much work, you can either: Configure your Web server to expire the generated page immediately (i.e. Apache's mod_expire) Write a CGI script that merely reads in the HTML file and outputs the content, which is usually not cached by the browser	[reply]