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Posted by Harlan Messinger on February 12, 2007, 5:54 pm
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cartoper@gmail.com wrote:
>>> I am working on a kiosk system that is driven by apache. After 5
>>> minutes I want system to go back to the default page. I recall
>>> seeing, and maybe even using some tag, I think it might have been a
>>> meta data tag to tell the web browser to goto a curtain page after a
>>> given period of time. What is the best way to do that in this day and
>>> age?
>> First of all, do not trust it to happen, it's easily blocked.
>> You could do this (redirect after 300 seconds):
>>
>> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="300;url=http://example.com">
>>
>> Or javascript:
>> function redirect(){
>> window.location = "http://example.com/";
>> }
>> setTimeout(redirect,300000);
>>
>> Never, ever trust this for any security whatsoever.
>
> Rik,
>
> Even in a kiosk system where the web browser is running full screen
> and the only input device the user has is a mouse? This is the
> oooooonly situations I am concerned about;) When this site runs on a
> non kiosk machine, I could care less if it resets or not;)
Do you also need the previous user's history to be removed?
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