AX13.md

Part after semicolon in meta refresh URL is ignored

For <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;url=http://example.com/foo/bar;foo=bar?foo=bar&bar"> should load the URL http://example.com/foo/bar;foo=bar?foo=bar&bar after 0s. But the URL http://example.com/foo/bar is loaded instead.

Workaround: surround the URL with quotes: <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;url='http://example.com/foo/bar;foo=bar?foo=bar&bar'">

TODO: test if it's the case for HTTP header Refresh: 0;url=http://example.com/foo/bar;foo=bar?foo=bar&bar

Tags

• header
• url

Applications

• ✅ IE 10
• ❎ Firefox
• ❎ Opera
• ❎ Chrome
• ❎ Safari

See also

• 4.2 Document metadata — HTML5
• Redirect to oauth_callback url containing semicolon won't work in some browsers - OAuth - Twitter Developers
• html - Meta refresh with semicolon - Stack Overflow
• URL redirection — Wikipedia