Re: build's html page - refresh rate

Browser believes that the current page is the one, to which it's been 
redirected. So, when it loads the redirected page, the page could be 
updated from perl => race condition & almost the same behavior...

Vladimir

David Fraser wrote:
> What about something like this:
> 
> main build page (index.html):
> 
> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=log1.html">
> 
> log1.html:
> 
> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10; URL=index.html">
> 
> Then you put the actual content into log1.html the first time. It will 
> periodically bounce to index.html and back.
> Then when generating another version of the page you put it into 
> log2.html, but only update index.html to point to log2 when the page 
> write is complete.
> Then hopefully since it is a small write to index.html it will never get 
> a broken index.html, and will only update to the new page when its ready
> (you could bounce backwards and forwards between log1 and log2)
> 
> Just an idea, I haven't tried it
> 
> David