GNU bug report logs - #62111
28.2; eww keeps reloading pages with zero-timeout refresh tags

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>

Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:48:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.2

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
Cc: 62111 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62111: 28.2;
 eww keeps reloading pages with zero-timeout refresh tags
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 09:32:44 +0200

> From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 01:46:53 +0100
> 
> When browsing a web page that read:
> 
>   <noscript><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=noscript.htm"/></noscript> 
> 
> eww would keep reloading the page endlessly, preventing me from
> regaining control of Emacs.  Sending SIGUSR2 doesn’t help because eww
> would keep going anyway.
> 
> Perhaps ‘eww-tag-meta’ should introduce a delay?

Thanks, but can you please show an example of such a Web page?
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