html: any way to "wrap" a web page with an auto-reload function?

Question

I have a status page that I would like to periodically reload. Instead of coding a refresh action into the page itself, I would like to have a wrapper page handle the periodic reloading. Any such thing available off the shelf?

Something I could use like this would be perfect:

http://foo/automatic-page-reloader?interval=60&page=http://foo/mypage.html

Answer 1

If you don't want to delve into JavaScript or anything like that, you could simply use an IFRAME where the framed page has a META refresh tag. e.g.:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60" />

Answer 2

You could make your wrapper page contain some javascript and a frame.

The javascript would execute a reload() call on the frame every once in a while using a setTimeOut() call.

A sample solution to this problem can be seen here.