Auto Refresh

Half an hour ago I felt a need for refreshing my web page as the same used to time out every 20 minutes, if not refreshed.
I bet all of you must have faced this situation someday at your work or while browsing at home. Isn't it? Surely, if you are a customer of icicidirect.com. :-)

Here's something on the solution front:
Raghu and I arrived at 2 solutions, of course, as you must have guessed, they are browser dependent.

Let’s begin with IE:
There is a website called: http://www.pagereboot.com/ie/ that comes to our rescue.
For eg:

http://www.pagereboot.com/ie/?url=http://www.rediff.com/&refresh=5

Above URL can be divided into three components:
1. http://www.pagereboot.com is the host website.
2. www.rediff.com webpage that you want to refresh and keep it alive.
3. &refresh=5 that helps you to refresh every 5 seconds.
Points 2 and 3 would be parameters and can be configured based on requirements.

Trivial! Isn’t it?

Let’s check out Firefox:
Here are a few easy steps that can help you on a FF browser.
1. Go to Firefox browser instance and go to Tools -> Add-Ons.
2. Add-Ons -> Get Add-Ons and search for ReloadEvery.
3. Click on Add to Firefox button and let the plug-in get installed.
4. The browser would now automatically restart.
5. Open your webpage on the browser instance and right click on the page.
6. You would now see a new option getting added in the menu that says ‘Reload Every’.
7. Configure it as per your use and Enjoy!

Lengthier, but simple and clean.

Up to you, you can use any one....

Let us know if you find a cooler way!