June 14, 201016 yr Hi I was wondering if I need to include a meta http-equiv tag on my pages. I see that most good websites have it. I do have DOCTYPE on all my pages. I don't know exactly what the meta http-equiv tag does. So do I need it? thanks
June 16, 201016 yr Hi I was wondering if I need to include a meta http-equiv tag on my pages. I see that most good websites have it. I do have DOCTYPE on all my pages. I don't know exactly what the meta http-equiv tag does. So do I need it? thanks <meta http-equiv="http-header" content="data"> this line changes a HTTP header if you are unable to directly. There is very little need for this these days. So no, you shouldnt need to use HTTP-Equiv Mikey
June 16, 201016 yr Author I didn't exactly understand what you meant by "it changes the HTTP header if you are unable to directly". But as I understand, the main idea is that it's not necessary to use this meta tag Thanks!
June 20, 201016 yr When you request a webpage. You first receive HTTP Headers, and then the document. So.. If u requested www.google.co.uk, you will get back; HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:58:40 GMT Expires: -1 Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Server: gws X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Connection: close <html><hea.... These are called headers. The <meta http-equiv="http-header" content="data"> edits these headers <meta http-equiv="Server" content="gws2"> <= changes the header from gws to gws2. Mikey I didn't exactly understand what you meant by "it changes the HTTP header if you are unable to directly". But as I understand, the main idea is that it's not necessary to use this meta tag Thanks!
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