Subject: Re: [httpwg/http-extensions] Documenting Refresh: HTTP header (#138)

From: HTTP issue updates <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 09:34:06 -0700

Just a note and not a re-open request:

The HTML meta refresh is a `http-equiv`, the existence of meta refresh in HTML is to declare that the HTTP refresh header also exists. Every browser appears to treat it that way, to implement the HTML meta refresh they have all implemented the HTTP refresh.

The bug as it stands is that there is no standard documentation of a refresh header in HTTP (outside of HTML documentation).

I have used the HTTP header at scale and the HTML spec for the header value format works as expected everywhere.

I have also used it in JSON APIs where again it worked (except with primitive bots, which was what I was aiming for that time). I am not convinced the "solve in the HTML spec" approach is the right one as it does work outside of HTML.

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