Auto Refresh IE6.0 at specified intervals

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This is done at the page level using a META tag.

<meta http-equiv=REFRESH CONTENT="<seconds>;
url=http://www.yourhost.com/page.html">

I don't think IE has a setting that allows you to force a refresh at the
browser level. If you wanted, you could write a small browser helper object
(BHO) to do this for you, but it sounds like a lot of work just to not push
F5.
 
When using OWA (Outlook Web Access) - when new messages arrive I don't have
a way of knowing. I was looking for a way to either active the send/receive
button on OWA page or refreshing IE every 15 min or so.

I don't know how to write BHOs.

Thanks,
Knezz
 
This is done at the page level using a META tag.

What about using frames? (E.g. the same way that About.com works.)
In this case your top frame could be invisible so you wouldn't affect the
presentation of your target page but that is where you could use the
META REFRESH. I'm not sure what you would have to do to try
to ensure any navigation stays within the frame but it seems to be possible
to some extent.

One thing that could be a problem with frames I think is that the REFERER
might cause the sites you are trying to link to to ignore your request.
Perhaps something like ProxOmitron could be used to eliminate that.

If there is something similar that works in the opposite direction it could
*insert* the Refresh order. Then you wouldn't need fake frames
but you'd have the headache of operating your own proxy.
 
You could just build a new page with frames like suggested and use the META
REFRESH tag to refresh to OWA content window on your interval.
 
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