Use of Refresh header to redirect or to noindex a page.

[GFPC]

Not sure if its the right place but will ask anyways.

What is the difference between the two codes below.


1. <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://www.example.com/" />

2. <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://www.example.com/">

I see some sites with the extra space and / --- what is the purpose of it.


Same goes for the following code to say - no index a page.

1. <meta name="robots" content="noindex">

2. <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> <--------- what is the purpose of the forward slash.

[Mike]

The space serves no purpose, in the top example, the code is exactly the same.

In the bottom example, the slash is there to validate the code. Off the top of my head xhtml transitional does not require a closing slash, but xhtml strict does. This does not apply to tags that have two parts -- such as <div> </div>, <span> </span>, and <p> </p> -- only to tags that need to "self close" such as <meta>, <br>, and <img>.

xhtml transitional --> <img src = 'blah blah' >
xhtml strict --> <img src = 'blah blah' />

Basically, it just depends on what your doc type is

[GFPC]

thanks Mike!! so essentially either one works fine - if you have in your code its not hurting anything.
I see many sites with the slashes and many without. It appears not to affect anything.