Bo Rasmussen said:
Hi Alex,
Can you control the client from the servers using such headers??? I want
clients to be in synch with the database on the server, so I would like the
server to send 'something' to the client to trigger an update. Can a refresh
header be used for this purpose ?
Regards
Bo
It depends what your "client" is. If your client is a standard browser then
a http-refresh could possibly be used - as far as I know it tells the
browser that after a certain amount of time it should resend the request -
and thereby be refreshed with updated data from the database (generated by
your webapplication).
You can't just send data from your webapplication to a browser, because the
browser works by sending a request and expecting a response to that request.
It does not expect an "unsolicited" transmission of data.
If you have another kind of "client" then things may be different, because
maybe it can handle unsolicited data and respond in a meaningful way.
Peter
