refresh url once a day

Not sure I understand - you need the browser to automatically refresh itself at 8am - just like someone hitting the F5 key?

I think this is done more in the source of the webpage rather than on the application itself.

what do you want to do? details are missing , please post details to help you

you are using windows 7 , why the zone is linux?

Hi, on what machine do you wish to refresh which URL? Is it some sort of 'news' system that has to refresh at the beginning of the day? Please explain a bit more, thanks.

Do you want to read the HTML once a day?  Are you using a browser?  

digus' solution works perfectly for Firefox, I use it daily on several systems that require 15 minute updates - but you can set it to update at any time.  Just remember to enable it and not just set the time.

the firefox addon 'reload every' will not allow me to reload a webpage once a day


the url I wish to load once a day is one where email will be sent

if it is reloaded too many times, then many emails are sent


i am using windows 7, but will consider doing this in ubuntu linux

Having a program rely on a browser window refreshing to send an e-mail is a very bad idea for many reasons. You should set something like this as a CRON job.

That said, use reload every, right click the window and choose Reload, and set it for Custom with 1440 minutes (you can type the number in - you don't have to use the values in the drop down).

It will work.

Setting it to 1140 minutes will reload the page every 24 hours.

1140 is 19 hours.

1440 is 24 hours.

Good catch..;)

It's a number I reference often in code. :)

You will find this option in Internet Explorer with some exceptions..
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie8-windows_other/how-do-i-set-refresh-time-in-ie-8-to-make-internet/dc035fbd-1159-42da-a7ed-3f5bab915efc

You can also use OPERA browser for the same.
http://www.expertcore.org/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=861

Thank You.

the url I wish to load once a day is one where email will be sent
if it is reloaded too many times, then many emails are sent

If I understand this correctly, you have a GET-method script that will send an email any time someone accesses the URL?  I would not do it that way; I would use a CRON job instead.  And since this takes an action that is more than simply data retrieval, you must not use a GET request to trigger it.  GET is only for data retrieval from server to client.  Technically you may not be changing your data model when the email is sent, but you're changing the recipient's data model.  

Also, I would make sure that this script is not where it can be found by a web browser or Google.  Put it outside of the WWW root, just to be safe.

In your terminal type

crontab -e

and add the following line at the bottom

1 0 * * * curl "http://yoururl.com" > /dev/null

This will call on yoururl.com one minute past midnight every night.

this is the easy (may not be the best) solution I used