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From: John Foliot - WATS.ca
Date: Nov 7, 2003 10:27AM

Thanks Joe... I was not aware of this. It is however a browser-centric
solution... what about users of Opera, Netscape (I'm currently a big fan of
NN 7.1), Safari, Konqueror, etc. etc. Also, I would wonder out loud how
many "average" IE users are aware of this option?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Boon [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:09 AM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: Re: webaim-forum-d Digest V2003 #80
>
>
> John Foliot ( <EMAIL REMOVED> ) wrote:
>
> > Currently I am unaware of any method to stop the "auto refresh"
> > of the <meta http-equiv> element, but as always am willing to
> > learn (if such a method does exist...)
>
> If you are using Internet Explorer 6.0, it has a security setting
> that allows you to disable refreshes.
>
> Goto Tools menu, Internet Options menu item, and go to the
> Security tab. You
> might need to pick your security zone. Then press the Custom Level button.
> Under the Miscellaneous node is an option called "Allow META REFRESH". The
> default is enabled. Just set it to disabled, and pages will stop
> refreshing
> themselves.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joe
>
>
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