Page won't meta-refresh

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dtobias
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Page won't meta-refresh

Post by dtobias »

I was recently sent to this URL to show the confirmation status of a hotel reservation:
http://www.swandolphin.com/infodesk/

This shows up as a completely blank page. Viewing the source shows that it actually is intended to automatically refresh to a different address, with refresh time of "1.5". I think Mozilla doesn't like such fractional refresh times.

I was able to go on to the site I really needed to get to by manually inputing the URL from the meta tag, but should I consider this a Mozilla bug or a tech evangelism incident? Is there any standard that indicates whether Mozilla should or shouldn't support fractional times for meta-refreshing? Actually, I think "meta refresh" is a nonstandard "feature" to begin with, not part of any official standard, so this may be a matter of "your implementation is as good as mine".
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Post by Gilles »

I have no problems with a build from 2003032114
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similar issue

Post by bijugc »

Sometimes I face issue at
http://www.indiainfo.com/

(all thoes times i used phoenix)
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