Tom,
Last Spring we deployed Dillo 7.2 for use in library lookup stations at a local elementary school. Dillo ran beautifully in our LTSP lab and on 4 CD booted, diskless P-120's with 64 megabytes of ram:
Great! It is excellent news to know you have deployed dillo in an heterogeneous environment successfully.
For catalog searches, the librarians, teachers and kids love Dillo and prefer it to Mozilla on Linux or IE on Win98.
This is very significative and encouraging: different kinds of users, with varying degrees of expertise had a choice in your lab, and they preferred Dillo!
We would like to install diskless Linux lookup stations in all the school libraries... which would replace 200+ Windows 98 installs.
Sounds perfect!
The *only* problem is that the card catalog server (Accent) uses sessions that require periodic client refresh. If the sessions time out, the server produces an error message that confuses the kids and frequently requires teacher intervention.
I understand and respect the reasons for not supporting the refresh tag... but I was wondering if someone may have had this problem and developed a patch or some other technique to make it work.
Let's see: "sessions that require periodic client refresh" It sounds more like cookie sessions combined with cache control directives than HTML-embedded meta refresh tags. (if you can see our custom warning msg, it's a meta-refresh) AFAICS It'd be rare for a server to send a meta-refresh tags because it can generate the page itself. Although I also see that if the resource is elsewhere it can try to redirect the browser, but again HTTP does it better. In anycase, please explain me in more detail what the desired functionality is, to study how to make it happen for you. If it is a cache issue, Madis Janson has a patch for that (only half reviewed by me, but with a good chance to make it into the official tree). I hope this to be the case. ... and if it is the propietary meta-refresh tag, considering that it'll be deployed as a kiosk, a private patch can cut it, but let's hope that's not the case! Cheers Jorge.-