Client pull is a way that you can instruct a user's browser to do something else after a length of time. You do this by encoding a hidden command into a page, that executes after some time goes by.

It's simple to do, and if you do it often enough on a site you can really aggravate your users. Or, you can use it carelessly and get your users stuck in an endless loop.

Here is Netscape's documentation of client pull. And here is an example of pull in action. If you want to create a client pull, you have to use one of the META tags as follows:

This example will cause the URL mentioned to be loaded in 5 seconds.

Be Careful

• If you set the "refresh" rate too low, the client's browser might begin to load the next page before the first one is completely downloaded.
• If you set your "pull" to reload the same page, it can cause an infinite loop.