IE7 Meta Refresh Issue Update
In a post last year I mentioned that there seemed to be an issue with IE 7 processing <
I am not sure if this option was there all along or not, but clearly it was not easy to spot it at the first place. Anyway, I am still not quite sure why this feature is turned off by default. It doesn’t seem that this setting significantly enhances the security of the browser but it does seem that it has caused quite some annoyance for the end users.
Gee, thanks Microsoft. Would have been nice if there was a “prompt” option along the lines of “This website is trying to redirect you to xxx. Do you want to allow this?”
Thanks very much for finding & explaining this, I was going crazy wondering why my website “stopped” working!
Thanks for finding this. It has indeed caused quite some annoyance for the end users as it breaks a lot of sites. A prompt would have been nicer than implicitly denying the redirect, but given the backlash to Vista’s constant prompting, I’m sure Microsoft was avoiding trying to make more. Oh well, another version leads to another work around.
Hm,
Hi seem to have the option enabled in my security settings yet IE7 does not redirect the page.
Must be doing something wrong in my html then.
Any ideas? :)
I guess it is disabled(i.e. META REFRESH is turned off) if security settings are set to high.