>>There is really no way to push a web page to a browser- the browser has to refresh itself. You can have a web page that uses the Refresh meta tag (view source in the lower left pane here to see what I mean) to refresh itself at certain intervals.
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>Won't Java Servlet push to the browser?

I know relatively little about servlets, but from what I understand they are only Java's version of middle tier components for the server. They closely follow the request/response protocol that most web server technologies do.

It's entirely possible that Servlets encapsulate functionality to send auto client refresh code to the browser. (IOW, create a META refresh or redirect tag).


FWIW, every implementation I have ever seen of "push" technology, is not push technology at all, but timed or coordinated pull using a meta refresh tag, HTML+ time, ActiveX, or Java to execute the request.

True "Push", AFAIK, does not exist with HTTP.