187672 - Refresh header with value -1 doesn't work as MSIE

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 149543

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Marius Kotsbak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a; MultiZilla v1.1.32 final) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a; MultiZilla v1.1.32 final) Gecko/20021212

These headers are probably inserted to be sure that MSIE isn't caching anything:
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="-1">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="expires" content="0">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">

In Mozilla the page is continously refreshed. I couldn't find any spec. for
refresh <0, but if it isn't defined in a spec, it seems like it would be better
to ignore it for value < 0.

A page that recommends these headers:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Q_20411972.html

Possibly a behavior for quirks mode, but since this page have DOCTYPE included,
it might not work that way either.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the url
2. Page refreshes (but probably not in MSIE)

Actual Results:  
Page refreshed continously

Expected Results:  
Just display the newest version of the page.

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

seems like a duplicate of bug 149543

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 149543 ***