I had forgotten this. Six years ago I researched the Refresh HTTP header field and came to the conclusion that #curl doesn't need to bother.
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Looking for the Refresh header
The other day someone filed a bug on curl that we don't support redirects with the Refresh header. This took me down a rabbit hole of Refresh header research and I've returned to share with you what I learned down there.daniel.haxx.se
Ludwig Behm
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •wow, I forgot about this one... I think I've read about this some very long time ago – so I guess it must have been on the german @selfhtml
You may want to s/the the/the/ in your blog article.
You mention in the that chromium added telemetry on that header. They are decreasing and more than 1 magnitude below MetaRefresh's values.
Would vote to deprecate that from whatwg... Labeling it clearly as undefined behavior.
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