Hi,
I've noticed two different types of web server behaviour when it comes to handling the refresh of HTML pages that are based on frames - or that have hyperlinks which specify a target.
Take the example code below, which is a fragment from an index page.

<frameset rows="*" cols="189,*" framespacing="0" frameborder="no" border="0">
  <frame src="leftnav.html" name="leftFrame" scrolling="No" noresize="noresize" id="leftFrame" title="leftFrame" />
  <frame src="home.html" name="mainFrame" id="mainFrame" title="mainFrame" />
</frameset>

This is a typical scenario: menu in the left nav bar, content in the main frame on the right hand side.
Obviously, when I first visit this index page, the main frame displays home.html. Perhaps I then visit another page in the main frame, which might be called visit2.html.
At this point, if I hit my browser's 'Refresh' button, what should happen ?
(1) If I run Abyss, Apache, or some other commercial web server, the page that gets re-displayed in the main frame is visit2.html.
(2) I've written my own web server. I'm not saying it hasn't got issues - I'm sure it has. One of them is as follows. If I run the same set of pages I've just mentioned through my own server, the browser refresh causes the main frame to re-display home.html and not visit2.html.
The first way is the one I prefer - it seems more logical - but why can't I achieve the same effect in my own web server ? The solution can only be one of two things:
(a) Either the web server, such as Abyss, is parsing the HTML and looking for pages that use framesets and then handling them differently, or,
(b) The web server is sending particular HTTP headers back to the browser to control what happens when a frames-based page is refreshed.
Would anyone (a developer, at Aprelium perhaps ?) be able to tell me what I need to do in my web server to handle the refresh of frames so as to give the effect in item (1) above ? I promise that I'm not in competition with Aprelium - this is NOT a web server for general sale but is embedded in another product and handles special transcoding that is specific to our industry.
Thanks