Canceling a 'refresh' meta tag

[Andrew May]

I have a page that is using AJAX type technologies to update some
elements on a regular basis. As a fallback for browsers that do not
support XMLHttpRequest I am putting:

<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='5'>

in the header to force a refresh of the whole page at regular intervals.

What I have not been able to find is any way to cancel this whole page
refresh once I have established that the browser supports
javascript/XMLHttpRequest.

Can it be done or am I going about it the wrong way?

Thanks,

Andrew

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

if(ajaxSupported){
document.location.href="thisPageWithoutTheMetaTag.php?noRefresh";

`document.location' has been deprecated long since in favor of
`window.location'. The `href' property of Location objects was
tainted in DOM Level 0, and should not be used in order to be
compatible among DOM-0-supporting UAs.

window.location = "thisPageWithoutTheMetaTag.php?noRefresh";


PointedEars