Novice HTML question: Refresh

[SPQR]

Some time ago I set up a webcam at home and a page on my site. Every
three minutes the webcam would take a picture of my backyard and ftp
it to my site where it was displayed on my webcam page.

The image was ftp'ed to ftp://mydomain.org/webcam.jpg.

On my website was a file, webcam.htm, that had a place for the image,
webcam.jpg. I put an HTML code on my webcam page that caused it to
refresh every 3 minutes -- every 3 minutes, the webcam.htm file would
go get the new jpg image and display the latest picture to an admiring
public.

This is a long story involving new computer, crashed drive, house
sale, move into an apartment, new telescope, old VW Beetle, daughter
quitting her job, a dead baby duck, and other irrelevant matters.
But, the bottom line is, I want to set up this arrangement again and I
can't find my HTML books.
I have evereything set up except the webcam.htm file on my site.

Can someone help me with the REFRESH code or whatever it is and how to
insert it in my webcam.htm file.

Thanks.

SPQR
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[Steve Pugh]

Po*********@hotmail.com (SPQR) wrote:

Some time ago I set up a webcam at home and a page on my site. Every
three minutes the webcam would take a picture of my backyard and ftp
it to my site where it was displayed on my webcam page.

The image was ftp'ed to ftp://mydomain.org/webcam.jpg.
I bet you don't own mydomain.org. Use either whatver.example or
example.com for example URLs, they were created for exactly that
pupose.
On my website was a file, webcam.htm, that had a place for the image,
webcam.jpg. I put an HTML code on my webcam page that caused it to
refresh every 3 minutes -- every 3 minutes, the webcam.htm file would
go get the new jpg image and display the latest picture to an admiring
public.
Possibly. If you used a meta refresh in the HTML file then it would
refresh the HTML file. That might have no effect on the JPEG unless
the server was telling the browser not to cache the JPEG file.

Have a read of http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/

This is a long story involving new computer, crashed drive, house
sale, move into an apartment, new telescope, old VW Beetle, daughter
quitting her job, a dead baby duck, and other irrelevant matters.
But, the bottom line is, I want to set up this arrangement again and I
can't find my HTML books.

I have evereything set up except the webcam.htm file on my site.

Can someone help me with the REFRESH code or whatever it is and how to
insert it in my webcam.htm file.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="180"> will refresh the page every
3 minutes. But note that some browsers offer their users the ability
to disable this sort of thing. It's often more user friendly to just
put a message on the page telling your user to hit refresh to see an
updated picture. If you do go for an automatic refresh then tell the
user that it will happen every three minutes so that they are not
taken by surprise whilst in the middle of doing something.

Steve

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